Books Quote by Lorrie Moore

“... He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while…

— Wyatt Prunty

“Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start - the way a map that shows to much…

— Haruki Murakami

“Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable,…

— Dave Eggers

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard…

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would…

— George Eliot

“There was a pier filled with thousands of people, men and women, fathers and mothers and children--so many children--children from the past and the…

— Mitch Albom

“for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“the allusions were too difficult for Mark, who was quite ignorant of the life of the roads though he had once written a very…

— C.S. Lewis

“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“But there was so much that one had to pretend not to see the incredible clutter that threatened to overtake the entire flat save…

— Michael Bedard

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter