Quotes About Literature

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.

I love the physicality of books.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.