Quotes About Literature

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

I already don't read reviews, I don't seek them out. Sometimes my family will tell me if there's a nice one.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I read a lot of war literature.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.