Quotes About Literature

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to cry - and my father NEVER cried. It always made me love him all the more.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I bless / all knowledge of love, all ways of publishing it.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don't worry about it.

I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

As a child I very much objected to books that tried to teach me something. I just wanted to read for pleasure, and I did.

Beverly Cleary

If you don't see the book you want on the shelf. Write it

If you don't see a book you want on the bookshelf, write it.