Quotes About Literature

His choice of books was too diverse to tell me anything: literary fiction, thrillers, classics… everything from Dan Brown to Dostoyevsky.

I hadn't liked him the day I'd met him although the strange thing is that I'd always loved his books.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book to pitch and is proving to be a lot of fun to put together.

'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

I read one of the funniest books last week by Don DeLillo. He wrote this book, 'Amazons' many years ago, under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. The book is very funny but I also think it's funny that he denies any involvement with it.

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

Writer's block has probably existed since the invention of writing, but the term itself was first introduced into the academic literature in the nineteen-forties, by a psychiatrist named Edmund Bergler.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

Literature has become too psychological.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in 1984 gave me protection. As did the awards it won. The Romanian secret police could no longer treat me and my friends as though we were completely cut off from the rest of the world. And we no longer felt cut off.

Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians.''