Quotes About Literature

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

I don't have too much time for fiction.

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."