Quotes About Literature

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

My agent will say, 'Well, it's another graphic novel.' I don't care. It's better writing than anything else that's out there. The characters are much better.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.