Quotes About Literature

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

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 achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. 'They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

There are few expressions in the English language that are less attractive to women than 'Rare Book Dealer.