Adventure Quote by Anonymous

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach…

— John Dos Passos

“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its characters, the…

— Todd Alcott

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

— Alphonse Daudet

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems…

— Virginia Woolf

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself…

— Gregory Allen Howard

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and…

— Lois Lowry

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort…

— Holbrook Jackson

“A room without books makes book-lovers shudder”

— Cicero Tabitha

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and…

— Martha Stewart

“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them a graspable…

— David Foster Wallace

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

— Brandon Sanderson

“The accumulation of consecutive rooms in his memory now resembled those displays of grouped elbow chairs on show, and beds, and lamps, and inglebooks…

— Vladimir Nabokov