Books Quote by Italo Calvino

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“I have lived so long within the circle of this book and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The universe is an amazingly fickle and eventful place, and our existence within is a wonder.”

— Bill Bryson

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally…

— Richard Dawkins

“The mind is a universe, and it has the power to completely create any possibility.”

— Lionel Suggs

“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature…

— Johannes Kepler

“The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.”

— William Lashner

“my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else…

— Emily Brontë