Ashamed Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

I have a huge passion for literature.

— Emily Perkins

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

— Frank Peretti

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies…

— Susan Sontag

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Oh yes, I am very inspired by literature.

— Michele Lamy

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

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— Carrie Coon

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Anne Fadiman