Books Quote by Samuel Alito

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

— Chinua Achebe

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

— Kevin Gates

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

— Jessica Mitford

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Jim Leach

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

— Natalie Goldberg

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

— Rooney Mara

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

Literature bores me, especially great literature

— John Berryman