Reading literature makes us better people.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

— Richard Ford

“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots of Fire…

— Stephen R. Covey

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period…

— Amy Harmon

“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice.…

— James Wood

“literature is a way in which we can learn to live deeper lives -- husband with wife, parent with child, brother with sister, fellow…

— Arthur Henry King

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

— David Foster Wallace

“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that…

— Kathy Fish

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible…

— Olga Tokarczuk

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

— Robert Stone

“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is…

— Martin Walser

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the…

— Terry Eagleton

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

— Aidan Chambers

“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English…

— Zoltan Istvan

Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author curses like…

— Howard Jacobson