Quotes About Literature

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.

Great books are rare.

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

I rarely read children's books.

If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

Rarely do you meet an American who knows his Wordsworth.

Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.

Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.

When I was in middle school, the librarian there was secretary for a couple of groups of professional writers. She introduced me to Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson, and I became very friendly with them over a period of two years. Both of them were very generous with their time, guidance and advice.