Quotes About Literature

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.

I feel like the books that I'm reading at any given time will really help me with my work, because it's just more characters, and you see new people while you're reading.

If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

I was a Kannada journalist and had worked in 'Samyukta Karnataka' newspaper as a proofreader.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.