Adventure Quote by Elie Wiesel

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within…

— Jacque Fresco

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war. In the…

— Walter Mosley

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

— Jonathan Franzen

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a…

— David Milch

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why…

— Anne Roiphe

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

— Irene Rosenfeld

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you…

— Deborah Eisenberg

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

— Bruno Tonioli