“ Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man’s au… Maxim Gorky
“ A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a worl… Sara Sheridan
“ I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it. Rabih Alameddine
“ Literature recounts history, explores knowledge, narrates universal themes of human existence, actives human conscience, enhances understanding of human motives, and explicates the nuances of human be… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ The core – and perhaps unexpected – thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there are powerful ways in which books organise, and cla… Alain de Botton
“ Her seven-year-old self had decided that stealing books was morally bankrupt, but since the books hadn’t actually left the library—they’d merely been relocated—it wasn’t technically stealing. Echo loo… Melissa Grey
“ But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits… Leon Wieseltier
“ Quote from “FUTURE GONE”:“…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams… Alexandar Tomov
“ Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.Until i… Michelle Horst
“ This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's m… John Matteson
“ I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the wor… Neil Gaiman
“ Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused atten… Joshua Rogers
“ When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic Bangambiki Habyarimana
“ The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his mind Bangambiki Habyarimana
