“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
Woody Allen
“It's a progressive education school. We don't use textbooks we use literature. We encourage children to engage in reading from an early age. The way we approach that is to let the children pick out their own (books).”
Michele Pearson
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read”
Oscar Wilde
“Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasure—the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale.”
David C. McCullough
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
E. M. Forster
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once”
Cyril Connolly
“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it”
Elizabeth Drew
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