Books Quote by Maureen Corrigan

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

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for…

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Jim Leach

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

“...there's an inverse relationship between frequency and information content...It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the word in a sentence if…

— Mark Rosenfelder

“Because being witness to all types of human experience is important to understanding the world, but also to understanding myself. To define what is…

— Nina Sankovitch

Realization is more important than understanding

— John de Ruiter

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as…

— Kevin Young

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

— Sean Parker

Communication is important, and when you have an understanding with someone on the pitch, it is the most important thing.

— Edin Dzeko

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

— Ayad Akhtar

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

“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

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