I've always loved literature, and the best books I read…

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly…

— Paulo Coelho

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I…

— Rita Dove

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but…

— Robert Stone

“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even that didn’t…

— L.L. Barkat

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

— Jade Bird

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's…

— Ilan Stavans

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

— Thomas Bulfinch

“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered priests. And,…

— Alice Walker

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

— JJ Feild

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

— Ilan Stavans