Quotes About Literature

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

I love being educated by historical novels.

I like writing historical fiction.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.

I read more history books than anything else.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

I'd never heard of Robert Hellenga; I didn't think a book with the name 'Snakewoman of Little Egypt' would hold any appeal for me at all.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.

I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as 8, up to adults.

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.