Quotes About Literature

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

I want my words to survive translation.

I love the English language. Words have power.

I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't work out very well, as you can imagine.

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

In general, when I'm writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it's for.

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.

I buy thousands of books a year.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'