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Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of…

— Anonymous

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional…

— Ian Mcewan

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

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

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

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady

“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to…

— Mark Slouka

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

— Tracy K. Smith

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

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

— Alister E. McGrath