Quotes About Literature

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

I like Nietzsche. I quote him in many of my books. He was born 100 years before me.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

I'm not going to give quotes about inventing the 'beach book,' but I was certainly at the forefront of it.

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.

I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

Libraries raised me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books, but maybe in a more ambitious way.

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

Books do furnish a room.

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying something.

I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came from that. I didn't read a book without pictures until I was 21.

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.