Quotes About Literature

Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I love romantic poetry.

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.

I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

I love depressing movies and depressing books.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

I love to listen to books on tape.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'