Quotes About Literature

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

All of my novels are democracies.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I write novels and other things.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

I don't write romance novels.