Books Quote by Elizabeth Olsen

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't…

— Sally Rooney

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for…

— Wole Soyinka

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

— Amos Oz

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

— Northrop Frye

Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read 'The Miraculous…

— Kate DiCamillo

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

— Susan Straight

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

“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

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

— Anne Fadiman