Books Quote by M.G. Harris

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

— Dana Reeve

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books…

— Graham Joyce

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most…

— Paul Theroux

A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in…

— James Gleick

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

— Philip Pullman

“Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.”

— David B. Lentz

“593 Still (very still), at the heart of “literary culture” is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner. Amazingly, people…

— David Shields

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk…

— Kathy Acker

“For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for…

— Foz Meadows

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of…

— Nick Hornby

The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me,…

— William Gibson