Books Quote by N.D. Wilson

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“he dragged his words painfully from the poets”

— Earl Derr Biggers

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his…

— John Green

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

— Cassandra Clare

“His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.”

— Ally Condie