Quotes About Literature

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world.

Film industry people don't read books.

I think it's really hard for filmmakers to adapt books.

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

I firmly believe that Tagore should be taught in schools all over India.

Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

Ivan Turgenev's novella 'First Love' is one of the most perfect things ever written.

My first love is literature.

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.