Quotes About Literature

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

I love "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." That was like the only black book we read in high school...

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel it. These stories are balls of light for me.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.