Book Quote by Susan Sontag

There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you should keep…

— Elif Batuman

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central…

— David Nicholls

It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for pleasure. This…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

— George F Will

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you…

— Edward P. Jones

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

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second…

— Lafcadio Hearn

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told…

— Philip Pullman

I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get…

— James Callis

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton