Quotes About Literature

I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

I am a big devourer of James Baldwin.

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life.

I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It's a long list that keeps growing.

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.

Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.