Character Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started deliberately looking for characters, ideally outsiders and ideally Americans. So I just started reading widely, as I tell my students to do:…

— Erik Larson

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

— Gillian Flynn

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much…

— Rachel Kushner

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.'…

— Cheryl Mendelson

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner