Bones Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

— Thornton Wilder

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal.…

— Mo Yan

“Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality ... by the fact that it…

— G.K. Chesterton

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

— Elbert Hubbard

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

— D. H. Lawrence

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages,…

— Paul Auster

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than…

— Rebecca Caudill

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

— Theodore Roethke

“The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.”

— Dani J Caile

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's…

— Seth Gabel