Quotes About Literature

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

If you liked Louis L'Amour, you will really love Don Bendell.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I love playing with words and texture.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.