I want to be wooed. I want to be courted. I want to be…

Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because…

— Andy Warhol

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its…

— Nancy Pearcey

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”

— Jim Harrison

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you…

— Louis de Bernieres

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting…

— John Ratzenberger

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You…

— Saint Augustine

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

— Louis de Bernieres

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is…

— Thomas Steinbeck

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took…

— Virginia Woolf

I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no…

— Craig Ferguson

He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold…

— Willis George Emerson

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you…

— Ray Bradbury

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

— Rita Mae Brown