Quotes About Literature

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.

I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

A book makes claims of literary art.

Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

With only one novel to her credit, Anna Jarzab can't quite be classified in Werlin country, but 'All Unquiet Things' is a big step in that direction.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I knew a bit about 'Emma' through the book when I was younger, but actually more from 'Clueless'.

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'