How to Read Literature Like a Professor Quotes

“In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids: A Bestselling Guide to Literary Analysis and Critical Reading for Children

“I hope never to be mortally stabbed, but if I am, I'd sure like to have the self-possession, when asked if it's bad, to answer, 'No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve,' as Mercutio does in Romeo and Juliet.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids

“What an English teacher does is very similar; he tells you when you get near mushrooms.”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids: A Bestselling Guide to Literary Analysis and Critical Reading for Children