Light Of A Candle Quote by Anne Rice

“To pass the time, I made valiant strides in my effort to read Ulysses, but feared I was losing the war. A hundred pages…

— B. Justin Shier

“You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence [...] I ask: who the hell…

— H.G. Wells

“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light to scribble…

— Josephine Moon

“Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the Joyce I left a note that said well I guess I got no choice…

— Walter Becker

“As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime,” he said. “I am that reader, and I…

— Philip Levine

“In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was handed books.…

— Ann Hood

“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed away as…

— Rebecca Maizel

“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been dark, then…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, in control of one's material. He was…

— Samuel Beckett

“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very little. But…

— John Green

“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so…

— Marcel Proust