Book Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“There must be many books, many lovely pines, to shield from hungry eyes the book that really matters, the wretched cave of our misfortune,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the…

— Roman Payne

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn…

— Charles Dickens

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from floor to…

— James Stephens

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John