Appreciation Quote by David Nicholls

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'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly…

— Susan Sontag

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Emmanuel Macron

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in…

— Kimberly Peirce

Books have knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, and crime doesn't pay..so if you keep reading, you'll go broke.

— Books and music. Facebook

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

— Garth Stein

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and…

— Simon Raven

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing