American Quote by Robert Gottlieb

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

— Zadie Smith

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational…

— Anonymous

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning…

— Robin Roberts

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.But then, you read.It was books that taught me that the…

— Alec Baldwin

“it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...”

— Jane Austen

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,…

— Matthew Quick

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful -…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

After having struggled through some close friends' and family members' battles with cancer, I wanted to create an American drama about the experience of…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

— Lois Lowry

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers…

— Arthur Miller

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the…

— Megan Karasch