Quotes About Literature

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

I put my soul into every book I write.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

I like feel-good fiction and mysteries.

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.

If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.

I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I could find on how not to become my mother.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.