Able Quote by Lev Grossman

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

— James Nesbitt

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

— Jim Leach

Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with Greek, Latin,…

— Robert Hass

“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.”

— Amos Oz

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

— Renata Adler

With 'Ilustrado,' I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed.…

— Miguel Syjuco

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is…

— Victoria Redel

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the…

— William Faulkner

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of…

— Francine Prose

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life…

— Maureen Corrigan

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've…

— Chris Abani

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's…

— Meryl Streep

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan