Books Quote by Julian Barnes

“Albert J. Guerard has justly called the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of a melancholy…

— Hunt Hawkins

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Instead, their storybook marriage had a dark chapter. A villainess side character, who remained stuck in-between the pages of their beloved fairy tale, and…

— Kristina Stangl

“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing…

— Shannon Hale

“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face…

— Joseph Conrad

“That odd alchemy of married love - passion, betrayal, fury, kindness, and companionship - lay there exposed between them.”

— N.M. Kelby

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that…

— J. Lynn

“Every man is a story book. It has drama, adventure, comedy, tragedy, fantasy, and romance.”

— Sunil Thomas