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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. -- Richard Ford
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. -- Nicole Krauss
Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them. -- Stephen Greenblatt
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. -- Gilbert Murray
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. -- Aidan Chambers
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. -- Elizabeth Drew
I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. -- Julia Glass
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. -- Diane Setterfield
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read. -- Terry Hayes
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. -- Kevin Wilson
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them. -- Katharine Lee Bates
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers. -- Ruth Ozeki
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors. -- Elle Macpherson
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like. -- Martin Filler
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. -- Avi Arad
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
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. -- Leonard Susskind
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language. -- Patricia MacLachlan
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much. -- Vladimir Putin
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, -- Wendy Lesser
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. -- Alister E. McGrath
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. -- Bill Vaughan
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. -- Amos Oz
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. -- Stephen Covey
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. -- Julianna Baggott
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. -- Katherine Paterson
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. -- Emilie Autumn
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. -- Grace Paley
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. -- David Plotz
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. -- Russell Banks

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