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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

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic! — Marcia Brown

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

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you. — A.K. Kuykendall

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking. — R.S. Vern

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. — Sylvia Plath

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion: — Olga Goa

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare

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

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis

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

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. — George Eliot

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

Every day, they gave him new reasons to smile, laugh, worry, and wonder. — 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

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers. — Walter Kirn

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

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them? — Idries Shah

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels

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

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

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

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. — Anita Brookner

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've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

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

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books. — Jodie Foster

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. — Azar Nafisi

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other — Lance Conrad

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

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. — Anne Bronte

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul. — Jason Ellis