#literature

"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village."

"You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."

"She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells."

"How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?"

"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"

"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination."

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

"There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause."

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

"I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised."

"Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told."