Quotes About Literature

The books of course had shaped his mind in a hundred ways, especially perhaps the poetry. He thought of the master at his school who had awakened him to the glory of Shakespeare, and his own discovery of Shelley. So many of the books, the best-loved ones, had been about England, and of course the poems were England itself. As a child England had seemed much nearer than New York or the cowboy west.

Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.