Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something…

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser

Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of…

— David McCullough

This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us…

— Colin Powell

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of…

— Van Morrison

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in…

— Jane Roberts

I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same…

— Holly Madison

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think…

— Sara Rue

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

— Annie Leibovitz

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

— Logan Lerman

I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And…

— Barbara Christian

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

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

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman