Quotes About Literature

I am a geek. I am always in books.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

Donna Tartt is a genius.

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

And I'm a huge George R. R. Martin fan.

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.

I loved school, although I got bored very easily. I liked literature. I loved philosophy. I didn't like math. I was good at English. I didn't like German. I was good at sports and continued to compete on all sorts of teams.

The Germans call him 'Our Shakespeare' because we love him.

I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

As a ghost writer, many words I have written have been for someone else.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Celeste Ng is such a gifted writer.