Quotes About Literature

I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

I liked Hemingway better before I began to be called 'Hemingwayesque.'

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.

I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

English culture is highly literary-based.

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.

I was a bookworm then, but when I came to know it, I woke among the butterflies.

He never married. But he wrote a good book.

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant! Not what he pleases, but what he can.

He managed to get the loan of a copy of Burns—better meat for a strong spirit than the poetry of Byron or even Scott.