Quotes About Literature

I've never adapted a book I didn't love.

A lot of my favorite books have been adapted horribly.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.

I don't take advances for my books.

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

I like to buy books at airports sometimes.

I like Al Purdy.

I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.

When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

I don't like allegory.