Quotes About Literature

I don't know that I read more than the average person. I don't think I do very much. I tend to read more when I'm on holiday. That's when I can go through books like you wouldn't believe. I read a bit of everything, but the novel has always been very important to me.

Authors should be honored only for their works.

I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show.

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

Great writing fills me with hopeful enthusiasm and never envy.

Becoming a reader grows our horizons, our appetite for the good, the true and the beautiful, and our empathy.

I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

Rushdie is a hostage.

My first five novels were written longhand. So were hosts of short stories.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

I'm a huge fan of reading.

I am a huge fan of Amitav Ghosh's work. I wish I could meet him.