Quotes About Literature

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

I love, loved, loved 'We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn Brooks.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's a pretty costly enterprise.

I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

For me, not just the character of 'Ender', but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn't sure how it could be brought to the screen - but Gavin has done it justice, and he's done it amazingly.

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.