Quotes About Literature

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

I'm not interested in teaching books by women.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.

I think one of the things the writers' festival does that is very good is that it brings writers from around the world and around the country and locally and puts them all in the one spot together, and that's what a lot of the world's great writers' festivals do.

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

May books spread the world over!

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

I invented the historical spy novel.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.