Ancient greeks Quote by Donna Tartt

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

“From an airplane, the earth always looks so orderly, so gentle. So full of abundance and grace and purposeful intelligence. By day you could…

— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

“They were boastful, triumphant; it seemed to both that they had read every book in the world; known every sin, passion, and joy. Civilizations…

— Virginia Woolf

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely setting foot…

— William Ritter

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read,…

— Albert Camus

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who…

— Mary Stewart Atwell

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

“The fact was that belief in them had to be there before they themselves could be there; if one did not look at the…

— Robert Musil

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed,…

— Gillian Flynn