Quotes About Literature

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Hazel said novels was better value than poetry books because they had more words in them, poetry books was a rip-off (Winsome doesn't think Hazel should be in their reading group)

her favourite writers are Olive Senior from Jamaica, Rosa Guy from Trinidad, Paule Marshall from Barbados, Jamaica Kincaid from Antigua, and Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

una buena metáfora de lo que pretenden ser los libros: espejos que, a pequeña escala, recogen todos los detalles de un universo.

Hay dos clases de literatura, la que propone una vuelta por fuera (crímenes en Norlandia, pasiones en la corte china del siglo XII, traiciones letales en un campus norteamericano…) y la que en su propuesta incluye una vuelta más, la que el lector debería dar por dentro de sí mismo».

In 1922 everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce's Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O'Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass's home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench...