Quotes About Literature

reread James Street's Tap Roots and By Valour and Arms, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox, and all the works of Shelby Foote.

Praise for JAMES LEE BURKE "James Lee Burke is the reigning champ of nostalgia noir." —The New York Times Book Review "A gorgeous prose stylist." —Stephen King "James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed." —Michael Connelly "Burke's evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder.

There are some foods some people just don't like. I just don't like movies. People tell me, don't you care what they've done to your book? I tell them, they haven't done anything to my book. It's right there on the shelf.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions

I love the swing and swirl of words as they tangle with human emotions.

To steal book seems like stealing the soul out of someone.

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it

Dear Reader, You're about to experience a revolution in reading — BookShots.

I love this snarky line about critics. It comes from the English playwright John Osborne: Asking a working writer how he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, he

American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 350 million

Don't dismiss the legitimate emotional attraction between readers and literature, Paul.

James Patterson

Our five-hundred-plus library-loving comedians march down the halls behind me.

James Patterson

James Patterson

So anyway, ta-da, here it is, book fans, and all of you in need of AR points at school

ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1976, James

Little, Brown and Company

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I wish I did. Most of the time I read documents, and that's not going to help your writing. But I'm a very logical writer, and you can't get out of me. Once I've nailed you, you're finished.

Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.