Quotes About Literature

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.

I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder. I've been discovering a lot more modern poems as well.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.

I think printed fiction is what women read.

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.