Quotes About Literature

Time flies but books are timeless...

I just met Stephen King in my dreams... I just said what I have watched and read from his books... Mainly I received a hug from him, it was like we are friends from long time.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

I'm not a Christian, but I have read his book.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I asked on my Facebook page recently how many people are rereaders and was surprised that the overwhelming majority of those who answered are. So am I. There is something very comforting about meeting old friends again within the pages of a loved book. It's a bit like coming home.