Quotes About Literature

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.

A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

My mother insisted that her children read.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.