Quotes About Literature

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

Literature has guided me through my whole life.

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway, and then there's a lot of work, and I forget it, and I have to go back to the beginning.

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was 'The Client' by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.