Quotes About Literature

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Writing bores me so.

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

My house is filled with boxes of books.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

Sam Shepard is a brilliant writer.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.