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I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path. ~ Edward Hirsch
Reading Literature quotes by Edward Hirsch
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment. ~ Janet Fitch
Reading Literature quotes by Janet Fitch
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Reading Literature quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors. ~ Elle Macpherson
Reading Literature quotes by Elle Macpherson
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~ Franz Kafka
Reading Literature quotes by Franz Kafka
My own mother, who's always dazzled by my faculty and answering questions in the literature a category on Jeopardy whenever we watch it together, keeps urging me to try to get on the show to make all those years spent reading finally pay off. Leave me alone I'm reading ~ Maureen Corrigan
Reading Literature quotes by Maureen Corrigan
...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't climb Mount Kilimanjaro or watch a bullfight in the afternoon - you don't have to. The world's a big place. You can't do or be everything, nor should you. Life is bigger than any one man. But when you read about other people's lives, when you read their stories, you catch a glimpse of a world bigger than your own. You maay never travel a hundred miles from where you were born, but if you read great stories, you'll get to see the entire world. You'll enter into the Great Mystery. ~ Steve Dublanica
Reading Literature quotes by Steve Dublanica
I look around and see that many - not all, but many - problems we've got could be solved if our culture simply fostered the habit of reading. Reading books of science, philosophy, history. Reading literature of quality, the sort that touches us because of a more profound reason, such as, for instance, because it's got something to say beyond all the futilities and trifles of life, even while depicting the ordinary in life, at the same time that it says it with style, in a unique, admirable manner. An original one.


We are not a county of readers, notwithstanding. We are the country of football turned into a cult, of guile being ranked high as a cardinal virtue, of Carnival made for exportation. A country where there are more letters in political party acronyms than in all many of our politicians have written in a lifetime. A country where ethics has become a joke theme. Where democracy is but a ridiculous puppet theatre.

Yes, I look around and see that many problems could be solved if we had the habit of reading. But I am not even sure whether there is someone reading these words. ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.
Reading Literature quotes by Camilo Gomes Jr.
I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years ago; you don't walk into lamp-posts when you're reading literary novels, do you? ~ Nick Hornby
Reading Literature quotes by Nick Hornby
I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career. ~ Pete Hamill
Reading Literature quotes by Pete Hamill
Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Reading Literature quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else's past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times. ~ Wendy Lesser
Reading Literature quotes by Wendy Lesser
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. ~ Grace Paley
Reading Literature quotes by Grace Paley
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough. ~ Leonard Susskind
Reading Literature quotes by Leonard Susskind
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. ~ Stephen Greenblatt
Reading Literature quotes by Stephen Greenblatt
You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most.
Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via dreams or by means of reading literature. It is impossible to learn from someone else's experience unless we don't assume this experience as our own's, which we can achieve only by living it anew and from scratch. We can not live our lives at someone else's expense. Only life fraught with dangers and risks and lived as your own's deserves its name. Only selfish people do not live their lives as if they do not belong entirely to them. Cowardice equals a life that you refuse to live at its fullest and at its most dangerous. ~ Martin Walser
Reading Literature quotes by Martin Walser
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Reading Literature quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets. ~ Thomas Steinbeck
Reading Literature quotes by Thomas Steinbeck
Between my generation and that of my students is an entire cohort of writers in their 30s and 40s. I think they've suffered most from the climate I'm describing. They prepared for their trade in the traditional way, by reading literature, learning something about history or foreign countries, training as reporters, and developing the habit of thinking in complexity. And now that they've reached their prime, these writers must wonder: Who's the audience for all this? Where did the broad and persuadable public that I always had in mind go? What's the point of preparation and knowledge and painstaking craft, when what the internet wants is volume and speed and the loudest voices? Who still reads books?

Some give in to the prevailing current, and they might enjoy their reward. Those who don't are likely to withdraw. The greatest enemy of writing today might be despair.

From a speech made in January 2020 on receipt of the 2019 Hitchens Prize, also printed as an essay in The Atlantic. ~ George Packer
Reading Literature quotes by George Packer
I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.' ~ Josh Radnor
Reading Literature quotes by Josh Radnor
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like. ~ Martin Filler
Reading Literature quotes by Martin Filler
Listening to music, reading literature, writing, and extended periods of personal introspection provide four prongs of the incitements available to form a conscious and subconscious designation of self. Other potential incentives that contribute to self-identity include religion and cultural events as well as painting, sculpture, dance, films, newspapers, television, Internet surfing, web sites, and online message boards. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Reading Literature quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. ~ Nicole Krauss
Reading Literature quotes by Nicole Krauss
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books. ~ John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
Reading Literature quotes by John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes ~ John Le Carre
Reading Literature quotes by John Le Carre
it would be fairer to say I have traveled widely, without ever leaving my own native soil, I've traveled, one might say, through literature, each time I've opened a book the pages echoed with a noise like the dip of a paddle in midstream, and throughout my odyssey I never crossed a single border, and so never had to produce a passport, I'd just pick a destination at random, setting my prejudices firmly to one side, and be welcomed with open arms in places swarming with weird and wonderful characters ~ Alain Mabanckou
Reading Literature quotes by Alain Mabanckou
I never thought I'd fall madly in love with literature. ~ Wency June Libot
Reading Literature quotes by Wency June Libot
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life ... one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain. ~ Virginia Woolf
Reading Literature quotes by Virginia Woolf
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again. ~ Salman Rushdie
Reading Literature quotes by Salman Rushdie
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. ~ Kevin Wilson
Reading Literature quotes by Kevin Wilson
I realized that the man I thought was stealing books so that others would consider him a cultured gentleman, the man who was building a phony image, a counterfeit identity, was in fact working diligently to become that gentleman. He was studying philosophy, researching authors, reading literature, even writing his own essays and plays. Through these efforts, he was attempting to create his ideal self. Another way of begetting this self, I came to understand, was by telling his story through me. ~ Allison Hoover Bartlett
Reading Literature quotes by Allison Hoover Bartlett
What you read when you don't have to ... ~ Oscar Wilde
Reading Literature quotes by Oscar Wilde
Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us - in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment. ~ Pawan Mishra
Reading Literature quotes by Pawan Mishra
If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Reading Literature quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. ~ Jonathan Swift
Reading Literature quotes by Jonathan Swift
It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Reading Literature quotes by Henry David Thoreau
To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace. ~ Tanya Egan Gibson
Reading Literature quotes by Tanya Egan Gibson
I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had to
lower my eyes, I was so ashamed that even now Jenny was reading my mind so perfectly.
'Listen, that's the only goddamn thing I'm asking, Ollie. Otherwise, I know you'll be okay.' That thing in my gut was stirring again, so I was afraid to even speak the word 'okay.' I just
looked mutely at Jenny. ~ Erich Segal
Reading Literature quotes by Erich Segal
I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn't quite happen. I guess I'm someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see. ~ Donald Fagen
Reading Literature quotes by Donald Fagen
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good. ~ Thomas A Kempis
Reading Literature quotes by Thomas A Kempis
Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam.
"From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea."
"Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam.
"No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim. ~ Marie-Louise Gay
Reading Literature quotes by Marie-Louise Gay
This book I'm reading says if you want to be as thin as a stalk of celery, then that's what you should be eating. I'm not sure I want to look like celery, but I know I don't want to look like a biscuit. ~ Rebecca Rasmussen
Reading Literature quotes by Rebecca Rasmussen
The lucky person passes for a genius. ~ Euripides
Reading Literature quotes by Euripides
As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message – And Lo! There shall be Two Hot Boys, one of them your Heart's Intended, the other a vain Pretender who is also hot and with whom you shall have guilty makeouts before settling down with your One True Love – I am inclined to stop viewing the situation as benign and start wondering why, for instance, the heroines in these stories are only ever given a powerful, magical destiny of great importance to the entire world so long as fulfilling it requires male protection, guidance and companionship, and which comes to an end just as soon as they settle their inevitable differences with said swain and start kissing.

I mean to invoke is something of the danger of mob rule, only applied to narrative and culture. Viz: that the comparative harmlessness of individuals does not prevent them from causing harm en masse. Take any one story with the structure mentioned above, and by itself, there's no problem. But past a certain point, the numbers begin to tell – and that poses a tricky question. In the case of actual mobs, you'll frequently find a ringleader, or at least a core set of agitators: belligerent louts who stir up feeling well beyond their ability to contain it. In the case of novels, however, things aren't so clear cut. Authors tell the stories they want to tell, and even if a number of them choose ~ Foz Meadows
Reading Literature quotes by Foz Meadows
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ~ Lee Child
Reading Literature quotes by Lee Child
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. ~ Ezra Pound
Reading Literature quotes by Ezra Pound
It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again. ~ Treat Williams
Reading Literature quotes by Treat Williams
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. ~ Henri Nouwen
Reading Literature quotes by Henri Nouwen
It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh ~ A.A. Milne
Reading Literature quotes by A.A. Milne
These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind. ~ Brad Herzog
Reading Literature quotes by Brad Herzog
And read ... read all the time ... read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. ~ David McCullough Jr.
Reading Literature quotes by David McCullough Jr.
She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged. ~ E.M. Forster
Reading Literature quotes by E.M. Forster
Dare to imagine. Dare to be.
Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil.
The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Reading Literature quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. ~ Jerry Spinelli
Reading Literature quotes by Jerry Spinelli
Was I (am I not still?) a victim of words and books merely, and are books just an excuse for living, living things out in parenthesis, even in the most desolate stony place as I was, quotations and misquotations raining down on me thick and fast – words, words, words – the multitude of words, a parody of rain? For after all, as old Mrs Feany said, the rain is healthy. And the rain it raineth everyday. But the stuff of books and solitude and spying on the poor, could they be healthy? Or were my doubts the real heresy and treason? What book ever changed the world? It seems a solipsism to say that what changes the way we see the world, changes the world, but it is not. Where do you want me to begin? The Bible, Das Kapital? The Divine Comedy, The Satanic Verses? ~ Andrew McNeillie
Reading Literature quotes by Andrew McNeillie
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life. ~ Virginia Woolf
Reading Literature quotes by Virginia Woolf
I thought to myself, who is this excellent man Van Doren who being employed to teach literature, teaches just that: talks about writing and about books and poems and plays: does not get off on a tangent about the biographies of the poets or novelists: does not read into their poems a lot of subjective messages which were never there? Who is this man who does not have to fake and cover up a big gulf of ignorance by teaching a lot of opinions and conjectures and useless facts that belong to some other subject? Who is this who really loves what he has to teach, and does not secretly detest all literature, and abhor poetry, while pretending to be a professor of it?...It was because of this virtual scholasticism of Mark's that he would never permit himself to fall into the naive errors of those who try to read some favorite private doctrine into every poet they like of ever nation or every age. And Mark abhorred the smug assurance with which second-rate left-wing critics find adumbrations of dialectical materialism in everyone who ever wrote from Homer and Shakespeare to whomever they happen to like in recent times. If the poet is to their fancy, then he is clearly seen to be preaching the class struggle. If they do not like him, then they are able to show that he was really a forefather of fascism. And all their literary heroes are revolutionary leaders, and all their favorite villains are capitalists and Nazis. ~ Thomas Merton
Reading Literature quotes by Thomas Merton
Stephen King once wrote, "Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear." In a horror story, the victim keeps asking why - but there can be no explanation, and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and it's what we'll remember in the end. ~ Alan Wake
Reading Literature quotes by Alan Wake
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Reading Literature quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
Sleeping is my passion, reading is my hobby and you are my drug. ~ Aril Daine
Reading Literature quotes by Aril Daine
a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Reading Literature quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Every reader's experience of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to differing degrees, and those differences will cause certain features of the text to become more or less pronounced. We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but also a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, faith, social involvement, and philosophical inclination. These factors will inevitably influence what we understand in our reading, and nowhere is this individuality clearer than in the matter of symbolism. ~ Thomas C. Foster
Reading Literature quotes by Thomas C. Foster
You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family. ~ C.J. Milbrandt
Reading Literature quotes by C.J. Milbrandt
If you are good, they say you are weak. ~ Dejan Stojanovic
Reading Literature quotes by Dejan Stojanovic
[A] person's fate is determined by where he is born [...] I was, to be sure, brighter than the other children my age. I picked up reading and writing in no time at all. And I was able to calculate finances without any effort. To stretch myself and expand my knowledge, I wanted to continue my schooling and go on to higher-level classes. But my family was poor. They could only afford to send me to the village elementary school. When I realized that my dreams would never be realized, I suppose -- like a tree whose roots are stymied and twisted and not allowed to grow -- I began to nurture a dark jealousy in my heart, an ugly envy. I believed fate had determined that I would be born into this miserable existence. ~ Natsuo Kirino
Reading Literature quotes by Natsuo Kirino
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps
In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain. ~ Dejan Stojanovic
Reading Literature quotes by Dejan Stojanovic
Speaking uphill takes courage. It takes overcoming a universal human affliction - the impostor complex. All of us labor, to one degree or another, under the belief that if other people really knew us, if they knew us the way we know ourselves, they would think less of us. That's the impostor complex - the fear that by showing ourselves we will be exposed as the flawed person we are. If you don't have this, in some measure, you are an incredible jerk and should stop reading immediately. ~ James B. Comey
Reading Literature quotes by James B. Comey
Not that I wasn't also having fun. Ripping the Defenders' arguments to shreds and then reading all the comments agreeing passionately with me and electronically patting me on my cybershoulders was thrilling. It's so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others' ideas. ~ Hank Green
Reading Literature quotes by Hank Green
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ~ Henry Miller
Reading Literature quotes by Henry Miller
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. ~ William Osler
Reading Literature quotes by William Osler
He didn't take his eyes off me, as if he'd like to see my head mounted on his wall over a sign reading PROBLEM SOLVED. ~ Karen Chance
Reading Literature quotes by Karen Chance
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