I’ve always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. – Jim Jarmusch
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. – Kate Atkinson
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you’re half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. – Mark Haddon
I’m not terribly conversant with children’s literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. – Lois Lowry
There isn’t, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. – Khaled Hosseini
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. – Lois Lowry
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by. – Lynn Coady
I can’t speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don’t like to read essays on literature; I don’t like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. – Laura Esquivel
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national – it is universal. – Lytton Strachey
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn’t simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this. – Margaret Atwood
I hadn’t planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. – Marian Wright Edelman
There’s always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. – John Scalzi
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. – Rita Dove
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it’s pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. – Richard Dawkins
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. – Russell Baker
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born. – Salman Rushdie
The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that’s filed everywhere else except under travel. – Robyn Davidson
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis. – Roger Ebert
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can’t pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can’t make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window. – Peter Temple
If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? – Robert Gould Shaw