Laura Vandervoort Quotes

I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

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

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.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

We could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words.

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

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

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

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

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

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

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.