Angst Quote by Nenia Campbell

“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented…

— Donalyn Miller

“...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.”

— Günter Grass

“...the sixth [eligible lady] perished miserably after returning to me one of my most cherished books with the leaves dog-eared and the binding cracked.…

— Roswell Field

“Ersatz, adj. Sometimes we'd go to a party and I would feel like an artificial boyfriend, a placeholder, a boyfriend-shaped space where a charming…

— David Levithan

“We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us…

— Nenia Campbell

“All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to…

— Nenia Campbell

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and…

— Nenia Campbell

“When nature calls, I don't let it go to voicemail.”

— Nenia Campbell

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of…

— Thomas Merton

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

— Clive Barker