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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Take my books away, and I should be desperate!
— Emily Bronte
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
— Alberto Manguel
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.
— Joshua Rogers
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
— Siri Hustvedt
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
— Newell Dwight Hillis
You don't bother to memorise the literature - you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.
— John Brunner
I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
— Maureen Corrigan
Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.
— Arlaina Tibensky
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
— Jamie L. Harding
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
— Kevin Wilson
I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.
— Rabih Alameddine
Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.
— Joshua Rogers
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
— Tom Waits
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
— William Drummond
The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you.
— C.J. Milbrandt
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?
— Jonathan Harnisch
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
Life is a rich literature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
— Lisel Mueller
Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
— Elliot Ackerman
Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
— Walter Farley
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
— Stephen R. Covey
The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.
— Stephanie Lovett Stoffel
Of Books and Scribes there are no end:This Plague--and who can doubt it?
Dismays me so, I've sadly penned
Another book about it. — Robert W. Service
Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.
— Heather Wolf
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
— John Banville
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
— Lawrence Clark Powell
But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.
— John M. Keller
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.
— Dejan Stojanovic
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
— Fran Lebowitz
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
How does one say something new and not retell?
— Dejan Stojanovic
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
— John Burroughs
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
— A.S. Byatt
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
— Anthony Burgess
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
— George Gissing
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
— Jasper Fforde
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Every day, our kids are faced with obstacles in their way. As parents we need to teach them how to get up and Keep Going.
— Mayra A. Diaz
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
— Gunter Grass
If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
— Bill Hicks
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
— Dejan Stojanovic
