#literature

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

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

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

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book."

"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow"

"Literature is the real life of imaginary people."

"Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice."

"I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come."

"Keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

"Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty"

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."

"I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one."

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."