Books Quote by Nick Hornby

“The lamp of light.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.”

— Rivka Galchen

“If you light a lamp for someone it will also brighten your path.”

— Buddhist proverb

“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when…

— Wilkie Collins

“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“...there's nothing more lovely than your lamplight, seen from a dark street...”

— John Geddes

“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing…

— Shannon Hale

“I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“It’s only literature, I know, but it does something, or at least it says something.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under a lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people…

— Yoshida Kenko

“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my toes.”

— William H. Gass