I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“I look around and see that many — not all, but many — problems we've got could be solved if our culture… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
“You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Activities that promote mind-wandering, such as reading literature, going for a walk, exercising, or listening to music, are hugely restorative. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“I was over forty years old and I felt like I hadn’t been born yet. I had spent my whole life studying… — Steve Justice Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
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