Books Quote by Franz Kafka

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

— Ann Patchett

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

— Anton Chekhov

Literature bores me, especially great literature

— John Berryman

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example…

— Anonymous

I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

— Gregory David Roberts

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

Oh, let's face it: I hate everything in others.

— Ricky Gervais

I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me.…

— Larry Fessenden

I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something.

— Susie Wolff