Quotes About Literature

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

My family's a huge fan of 'Lord of the Rings.' My dad probably preaches from 'Lord of the Rings' as much as he does the Bible.

I read 'Preacher' once a year.

Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.

Literature precedes genre.

My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.