Books Quote by Dan Simmons

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

“It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was,…

— Tennessee Williams

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”

— B.S. Murthy

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure,…

— Mary Antin

“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the only one that remain. People may…

— Happy Positivity