Books Quote by David Foster Wallace

For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, 'Infinite Jest' became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was 'cool' for…

— Mark Manson

“This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.”

— Victor Hugo

“There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any…

— Earl Of Chesterfield

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

“Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating. Have you given up this primary business as obsolete…

— Ray Bradbury

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of…

— Laura van den Berg

“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.”

— Carmen DeSousa

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire