Quotes About Literature

I like books that are fat and full.

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.

I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

One of my favourite books of all time is 'The Borstal Boy.'

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.

I have no literary fears.

My parents are both huge science-fiction and fantasy fans - I was fed it.

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.