Book Quote by Edmond Jabes

“The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.”

— John Steinbeck

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book,…

— Suzanne Selfors

“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start the fire…

— Jarod Kintz

“The candle of his life burned out too soon, but it burned so brightly!”

— Adriana Girolami

“While reading a book by candlelight, the flickering candle flame dances on the words of the book, and the story of the book seems…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through…

— Arthur Plotnik

“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.”

— Kellie Elmore

“Nervously, I light a cigarette and chase through the smoke for the wounds that years have seared my soul, words whose fire has never…

— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

“If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick,…

— Anthony Liccione

Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living…

— Michael Faraday

“Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire”

— Marilyn Manson

“Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is…

— A.W. Tozer