Lauren Groff Quotes

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

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov to Denis Johnson, from Flannery O'Connor to A.M. Homes, and perhaps investigating all that strange variation of beauty has rubbed off on me. Or perhaps that's why I enjoy teaching literature.

What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay.

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

We're not in love with Literature all the time - especially when you have to teach it every day.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I read part of it all the way through.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

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.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

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.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.