Eminem Quotes

We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

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 have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I produced. That was naive.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

I started reading seriously after I was in college. I read comic books. I read every 'Power Man' and 'Iron Fist' that ever came out. I had a teacher introduce me to poetry, and that kind of woke me up.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

I'm a wizard at poetry.