A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“As night falls silently all around, She carefully turns the last page.” — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
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No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned… — Tablo Copy Share Image
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen. — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
“I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our… — Chrystos Copy Share Image
“If this were a book written to entertain small children, you would know what would happen next. With the villain's identity and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
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When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical… — Joel Manby Copy Share Image
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