Quotes About Literature

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

I love to read aloud.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

I was also in love with the English language.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no one else shows up.

Love is only found in books

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.