Quotes About Literature

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

I love books. I want to read them, and I want to own them so they're always available to be reread.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I'm a fan of Douglas Adams, yes.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

Everything I write, I've written the first draft in Austria.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I was going to do accountancy; then I got a C in Economics and thought, 'Why am I doing this?' The only thing I was interested in was books and literature.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.