Quotes About Literature

So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.

I never even had the time to read novels.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

Great books conserve time.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

I thought that I wasn't an essayist because I just didn't see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That's why I joined the poetry program in grad school.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

I am more or less reading all the time.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.