Quotes About Literature

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

Our education system no longer teaches empathy,' Sam said. 'Now, if everybody in college had to take a minor in Literature, the world would be a better place.

The stranger's arm intercepted him.

No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.