Literary Texts Quotes

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.

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

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.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

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

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

I was a terrible English student.

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

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.