Quotes About Literature

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.

Katherine Applegate

To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Devote yourself to reading.

...there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Arta lecturii, aÅŸadar, e în bun? parte arta recititului.

through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an escape from time comparable to the emegence from time effected by myths. (...) Reading projects him out if his personal duration and incorporates him into other rythms, makes him live in another history.