Quotes About Literature

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?

Writing 'Schottenfreude' has reinforced the fact that there are few, if any, emotions that have not been experienced, and analyzed, by some of the world's greatest writers.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading.

Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.

I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

It is extremely important to me to write for children.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

I never failed at anything in fiction.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.