Quotes About Literature

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

Prince Philip is very intellectual. And Prince Charles is extremely well read.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.