Quotes About Literature

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

Reading equals hope times change.

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

I've loved reading all my life.

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it.

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

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.

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.