Fall in love Quote by Richard Powers

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my…

— Pat Conroy

“I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to…

— Jane Austen

“The beautiful unruliness of literature is what makes it so much fun to wander through: you read Jane Austen and you say, oh, that…

— Kathy Fish

“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins…

— Kevin Emerson

“I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”

— Elmore Leonard

“It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many…

— Daniel Schwabauer

“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my…

— Azar Nafisi

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a…

— Rumi

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything.”

— Anna Jeffrey