Quotes About Literature

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Negative books can be bestsellers, but seldom classics.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

It's heretical, I know, but I've never really been able to get on with Agatha Christie. She is, of course, a giant of the genre, but I never feel that she cared a great deal about the characters. Consequently, neither do I.

I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

I was a nerdy kid.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'