Quotes About Literature

I like to write a lot of satire.

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I read a lot of scripts, but few of them stand out to me.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

Sean's a great, great writer.

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.