Quotes About Literature

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Stephen Graham Jones

You seem to know a lot about this particular genre we're in," he says.

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

The public library was more accommodating;

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

There are no children's books in prison.

Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.

There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I kept putting it off.

I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before.

Would you care to comment on the complexities of the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine?" Yeah, about as much as I'd care to have a Fleet enema, sir.