Quotes About Literature

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

I have a passion for children's literature. Young adult literature. I love it. I've always loved it.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it.

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

Is not poetry the food of love?

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet