Books Quote by Quentin R. Bufogle Download Open image ““Literature today is like elevator music for a narcoleptic.”” — Quentin R. Bufogle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Music
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
“Whatever junk novels were, however they worked, they were close to therapy, and airports were close to therapy. They both belonged to the culture… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.” — Ange Mlinko Copy Share Image
“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on,… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.” — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Music is the highest art, no question. But literature is a friendlier one. It depends on us more, bores us more quickly, can't go… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.” — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“Be thankful for the little you've got, and a little is all you're gonna get.” — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).” — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“It's a random universe. Shit happens. Good people get stage 4 cancer and dipshits win the lottery. There is no justice. Everything doesn't always… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“If there's no honor among thieves, only a colossal idiot (or fellow thief) would suggest using the honor system to regulate big banks and… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“Forget the National Debt Clock. We need an electronic billboard to track all the daily shootings in this country. I'm really sick of listening… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“I was planning on procrastinating today . . . but never got around to it.” — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.” — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
