Quotes About Literature

I am deeply indebted to many people who have shared their love of and insights into these remarkable books with me over the years, none more than Jessica Matthews of George Mason University.

heads that edged the huge fireplace, and I

like he wouldn't give the road to a bear.

I don't," he said bluntly. "But I saw that fiction"—he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous—"is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy.

Que todo el mundo se calle —ordenó con firmeza—. Voy a leer.

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

An author departs, he does not die.

I became a children's author by accident.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Proust is a huge author for me.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

I love reading. I've had the chance to meet some of my favorite authors, that's been really cool.

I am not an autobiographical writer.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

A book is either autobiography or a novel.