Books Quote by Amos Oz

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

— Amos Oz

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

— Tracy K. Smith

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

— Alister E. McGrath

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

— Sandra Cisneros

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read…

— John Dufresne

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,…

— Simon Cheshire

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life…

— Maureen Corrigan

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as…

— Ann M. Martin

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

— Anthony Doerr