Books Quote by Clarice Lispector Download Open image ““her short stories read like perfect songs.”” — Clarice Lispector ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Music Short stories
“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds,… — Megan Lindholm Copy Share Image
“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.” — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“She’s into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls. She’s into… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“She was…perfection. One of those women who inspired vivid sexual fantasies. And for nicer guys, probably poems and songs and sappy crap like that.” — Tina Vaughn Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to believe that I shall die. Because I'm bubbling in cold freshness. My life will be very long because each… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being doesn't do… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter how close… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or for us… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I see that the wardrobe looks penetrable because it has a door. But when I open it, I see that penetration has been put… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
