Quotes About Literature

Selling books is hard to engineer.

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

I have always been into reading serious material.

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

I read several books at once.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.