Quotes About Literature

I like short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

I don't have any answers as to whether the Internet is a good or a bad thing, but it's certainly an important thing for the novel because novels are so much about communication, and when communication changes, the novel has to change.

If you make a book which is little more than putting a television script on the page, and add a few pictures, that would be a bad thing. But I would never do that because I happen to be very interested in language, in writing.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I read almost no romantic fiction, in part because I barely believe in romance in the age of Tinder.

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.