Anecdotes Quote by J.K. Huysmans

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

“When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To know I could still…

— Philip Larkin

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after…

— Honore de Balzac

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone…

— Franz Kafka

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for…

— Carl Sagan

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make…

— Ellie Rose McKee

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared,…

— Russell Smith

“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in…

— Jane Austen

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

— Anonymous

“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are…

— Nicola Morgan