Quotes about Literature

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

I married the heroine of my stories.

Not only for that night but for the days and weeks that followed his books were to be but furniture and his friends only people who lived and walked in a nebulous outer world from which he was trying to escape.

I wish I was in print. It will be odd a year or so from now when Scottie assures her friends I was an author and finds that no book is procurable.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Books may well be the only true magic