Quotes About Literature

I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.

My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

I wasn't a huge fan of the fantasy genre. I love 'Harry Potter'.

He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

I read very little contemporary anything.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.