Quotes About Literature

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

I read a lot of books; I am a lazy person when I don't work!

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I'm a huge Ang Lee fan and a huge Larry McMurtry fan.

I was a librarian.

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

I was a librarian in a city school.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.