Quotes About Literature

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

I would read all day if I could.

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

I used to say that if I could get paid to read books, my life would be made.

I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish just because we don't happen to agree with it.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I am a black woman who has been given this character called Hermione to play on the stage. But actually, we've all grown up with the books, with Emma Watson playing her in the films. Imagery is so strong.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.

Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.