Book Quote by David Shields Download Open image “A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.” — David Shields ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Endure Existence Life Should Teach
A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .” — David Shields Copy Share Image
“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books." "Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while. — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told… — David Shields Copy Share Image
You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's. — David Shields Copy Share Image
We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.” — David Shields 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
