Book Quote by Clarice Lispector Download Open image ““These fragments of book mean that I work in ruins.”” — Clarice Lispector ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.” — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. - The Adventure of the Dying Detective ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I think it’s from seeing the material summation of his life sitting in ruins. If we are our jobs, our houses, our cars… all… — Ryan Schow Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago have been… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“I’ve been sifting through the layers of dusty books and faded papers. They tell a story I used to know; one that happened so… — Kate Wolf Copy Share Image
“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.” — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
“Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up in them… — Amber Benson 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 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
