Books Quote by David Sedaris

“I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of…

— Mircea Eliade

“If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life…

— Gerald R. Ford

“Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.”

— Carolyn Weber

“Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.”

— Vijay Kedia

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“It’s sweet. Passionate. Appealing to the senses.” Andy sounded serious, like a true critic. “Have you thought of majoring in literature?”

— Nely Cab

“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you…

— Chad Harbach

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like,…

— Daniel Handler

“I chose not to listen to my poor dad, even though he was the one with all the college degrees.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?' he says,…

— Philip Roth