Quotes About Literature

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

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.

For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I think Amazon has been great for readers.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.