Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

All literature is protest.

Russell Baker

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Rex Stout

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

William Maxwell

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

Whitley Strieber

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Tucker Max

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Trevor Nunn

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Samuel Johnson

The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.

Wallace Stevens

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Zadie Smith

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Twyla Tharp

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.