Literary Engagement Quotes

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

You're either reading a book or you're not.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

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

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.