Books Quote by Mariana Fulger

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent…

— Harry Mulisch

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

— Scarlett Thomas

As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's…

— David Ignatius

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the…

— Michel Foucault

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those…

— Philip K. Dick

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you…

— Italo Calvino

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems…

— Fernando Pessoa

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is…

— Paulo Coelho

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous