Books Quote by Julian Barnes

“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

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“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

“Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story of my…

— Arthur Schnitzler

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“It's the truth, though rarely admitted, that every autobiographical work has a touch of fiction and every fiction has a touch of autobiography.”

— Santosh Kumar Das

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes