Quotes About Literature

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

I'm a real big fan of words.

I've always been a big fan of books.

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work.

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

Never index your own book.

If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.

I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.