“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.” — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas… — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
