“ Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction. Kristine Grayson
“ It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult fami… Kristine Grayson
“ Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like. Kristine Grayson
“ He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you. Kristine Grayson
“ What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You can leave the bookshop content, you, a man who thought that the… Italo Calvino
“ Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be… Arthur Machen
“ I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered. X. Williamson
“ Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it. William Wordsworth
“ The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. Roopleen
“ Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. Roopleen
“ Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed:… Martha Cooley
“ Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the cover… Swami Vivekananda
“ It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play wit… Julian Barnes
