Quotes About Literature

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

I was a precocious reader.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not really a big reader.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

I've always been a big reader.

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!