Quotes About Literature

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

There is no higher life form than a librarian.

Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Literature was life, and reading became an open door to a world beyond the familiar.

Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud.

To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

MARY: How in the world are our readers going to know who Miss Jenks is? She was only in the first book. CATHERINE: Then they should go back and read the first book. It's only two shillings, at bookshops and train stations. I would have mentioned that, but you told me to stop advertising!

MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail? CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time? MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying. CATHERINE: It's very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola. MARY: We are not French.

She leaned over and kissed Carmilla, evidently meaning to kiss her cheek, but at the last moment Carmilla turned her head an they kissed each other on the lips. Laura laughed. It startled Mary - what was the relationship between these two women?

90 percent of everything is crap.

No me gustan los intelectuales hombres de las letras con sus conversaciones sobrecargadas de citas.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.