Masiela Lusha Quotes

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

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

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

I went to NYU for acting, for six years. I thought acting was the easy way out or in because I didn't put in enough effort in school, being a crazy kid in college. But, I was good at it, so that was the other side of it. I would love to direct. What I've learned from being on set is more how to deal with actors than even the visual part of it all.

If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.