Books Quote by Alan Bennett

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read,…

— Albert Camus

“A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn’t know if the somewhere even exists yet. It is…

— Colum McCann

“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country.”

— M.T Anderson

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a…

— K.M. Randall

“This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in some sense…

— George Ella Lyon

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“I had to go to literature to survive. It was through literature such as Black Spring that I came to a deeper understanding of…

— Michael Savage

“Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have…

— Susan Elderkin