Concerned Quote by Guillermo del Toro

A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.…

— Joe Hill

I see no comparison between the past and future, both constants share the same ideology. For me the present is the truth.

— Jeremy Limn

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on…

— John Frusciante

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and…

— Herman Melville

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

— Sheila Heti

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

“But it would be far more effective—and considerably more inventive—to enact that same process with a text that has no preexisting meaning. A book…

— Chuck Klosterman

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

— Sophie Thompson

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense,…

— Peter Ackroyd

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

— Walter Kirn

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in…

— Herman Melville