Quotes About Literature

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that's who we are.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

I am a writer of fragments.

As a kid, I wanted to be part of the Lost Generation who came to France.