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Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.