Quotes About Literature

I say novelist, not writer. The novelist is one who, according to Flaubert, seeks to disappear behind his work.

A woman writer, except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their wives and mistresses as a marline to save themselves from the wear and tear of interruption.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

I just love fiction. I love it.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

Basbanes makes you love books.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.