Quotes About Literature

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.

People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me, so I do end up reading lots of shorter things.

I want to be like Madame de Stael.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

Magazine articles are the new books.

I love going through fashion magazines, love to read - Paulo Coelho is my favourite author.

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

I was an English major.

I was an English major in college!

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.