Books Quote by Jean Rostand

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.”

— Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst

“Some of us go full circle. Some of us blindly go nowhere. The circle doesn’t have to be very large to make a point,…

— Jason Mraz

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

— Virginia Woolf

“There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may…

— M.T. Anderson

“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“Always think in circles to get your ideas around”

— Benny Bellamacina

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

— Gao Xingjian

“In the indigenous world, we assign sacred value to circles. But sometimes a circle just means you keep returning to the same shit again…

— Sherman Alexie

“Philosophy: circles that include one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and…

— Lois Lowry