Books Quote by H.G. Wells

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of…

— Stephen King

“Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.”

— Azar Nafisi

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“Have you ever been reading a book and found yourself having to pause for a second and read a certain part again because the…

— Emily May

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than…

— Richard Wright

“But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of…

— Stephen King

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your…

— Sunday Adelaja

“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful…

— Ann Patchett