Quotes About Literature

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.

You need books to read and readers for books.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I just have never got into reading.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.