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Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic. — Elliott Colla

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other. — Siri Hustvedt

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation.. — Richard J. Foster

You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book? — Adriano Bulla

You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno

You don't bother to memorise the literature - you learn to read and keep a shelf of books. — John Brunner

The worth of a book is infinite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature. — Renata Adler

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. — K. Lamb

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books. — K. Lamb

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — Alexander Pope

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy. — Abhijit Naskar

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything — Thomas Nixon Carver

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. — Alison Owen

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. — William Kennedy

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. — Roland Barthes

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read. — Terry Hayes

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. — Charles Caleb Colton

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted. — C.S. Lewis

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books. — A.S. Byatt

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe

The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature. — Amos Oz

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. — Samuel Butler

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. — T. S. Eliot

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels

If you want to know a country, read its writers. — Aminatta Forna

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature. — James Delingpole

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career. — Pete Hamill

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this. — Salvador Plascencia

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"Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are. — John Fowles

The more you learn,the more you want to learn. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. — Frederick Lenz

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

The love for literature is the key to knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When you read great literature, you become a thousand men and yet still be yourself. — C.S. Lewis

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. — Annie Dillard

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read. — Evan Esar

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it. — Alexander Theroux

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

The gift of literature is the grace of knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do. — Garth Greenwell

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self — Lailah Gifty Akita

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. — Samuel McChord Crothers

Love that Literature. — S McPherson

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? — Italo Calvino

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us. — T. S. Eliot

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. — Jorge Luis Borges

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book — Johnny Rich

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay

People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. — Dermot Davis

You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't. — Dimitra Ekmektsis

One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. — Alain De Botton

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own. — Epictetus