Mind reading Quote by Ambeth Ocampo

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the…

— Anonymous

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are…

— F. Sionil Jose

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father…

— Jane Austen

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits…

— Nicholas Royle

Let us not kid ourselves; let us remember that literature is of no use whatever, except in the very special case of somebody's wishing…

— Gustave Flaubert

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum…

— Andre Braugher

This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's never easy…

— Adam Morris