Aidan Chambers Quotes

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read.

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

I was a terrible English student.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

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 am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

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.

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a version of many years later as 'Valmont.'

I read good. I was an English major.

I grew up reading a lot on literature and all of that.

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.