Quotes About Literature

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

I hope that there are many more women out there writing bits of feminist sci-fi. And men, also - men are allowed to write feminist things.

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

The whole of Sheffield seems to be crazy about books. There are festivals and their own book awards, and their own children's book conferences for teachers and librarians.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

I'm ashamed how little science fiction I've read.

I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I don't read fiction at all.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.