The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. Read Summary
The crown of literature is poetry. Read Summary
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. Read Summary
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Read Summary
I am a part of everything that I have read. Read Summary
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. Read Summary
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. Read Summary
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. Read Summary
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. Read Summary
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Read Summary
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. Read Summary
There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that. Read Summary
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Read Summary
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea. Read Summary
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Read Summary
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. Read Summary
Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive. Read Summary
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. Read Summary
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. Read Summary
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all. Read Summary