Book Quote by Rob Nixon

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it…

— Jo-Ann Mapson

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know…

— Renee Watson

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in…

— Will Self

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a…

— Julia Alvarez

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or…

— George Steiner

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

— Samuel Alito

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

— Samuel Johnson