Quotes About Literature

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

It's nice to have awards from time to time. There was a time when I had to make a living from my writing, and it wasn't always easy. I value awards a lot - and more so if there is a little cash with them!

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit down to read some poetry, I usually read more contemporary stuff.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

The novel is a medium of profoundly serious investigation into the human case.

Un estilo interesante consiste en una sucesión constante de diminutas, casi indetectables, sorpresas en el texto

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.