Quotes About Literature

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

I am an avid reader.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.