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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
— Andrew Bird
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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
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
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
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
The love for literature is the key to knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
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
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
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
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
