Quotes about Literature
Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Richard K. Morgan, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks
- Ernest Cline
Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I
- Ernest Cline
Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I
- Ernest Cline
All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.
- Eugene Peterson
I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.
- Joseph Heller
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
- Virginia Woolf
I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.
- Stellan Skarsgard
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
- Beverly Lewis
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
- Stephen Hawking
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
- JM Coetzee
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
- Zig Ziglar