Books Quote by Anonymous

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different,

— Wendy Lesser

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing.…

— Ayad Akhtar

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we…

— Ruth Ozeki

What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the…

— Sefi Atta

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus…

— David Shields

“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

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King