Quotes About Literature

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.

My father, Inder Raj Anand - a famous writer in his own right - was a great friend of Satyajit Ray.

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.

My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be a writer.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Read in order to live.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.