Quotes About Literature

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal ticket?

What an interesting choice of words. "Not real, and never were." Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal-ticket?' 'I

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you're well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next.

Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version.

A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

We hope you enjoy this book

He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasn't important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Certainly, de Grandin was not the first occult detective—Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, Hodgson's Thomas Carnacki, and Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw preceded him—nor was he the last, as Wellman's John Thunstone, Margery Lawrence's Miles Pennoyer, and Joseph Payne Brennan's Lucius Leffing all either overlapped with the end of de Grandin's run or followed him.

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody

More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Pangur Bán Poem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

Every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.