Quotes About Literature

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

I love Hammett, never liked Chandler - I'm one of the few.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Literature is analysis after the event.