Walter Savage Landor Quotes

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind and encouraging to me. I adore that woman. But I also fangirl over aspiring or beginning authors, because every time I talk with them, I'm so energized and inspired.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

I have respect for everybody in the league.

You have to respect people for what they do. Just because you don't like it, it's like, I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it.

This is Rilke. I wish I had written it for you.

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

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

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.