Desire Quote by Roxane Gay

“The story of my life is wanting, hungering, for what I cannot have or, perhaps, wanting what I dare not allow myself to have.”

— Roxane Gay

“Desire for books, desire to read.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Desire lies dormant in our hearts; slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.”

— Balroop Singh

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Desire is story itself.”

— Katharine Haake

“Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.”

— Adelise M. Cullens

“Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake.”

— Francesca Zappia

“The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass…

— Roger Scruton

“We want the author to give us answers when all he can do is give us desires.”

— Eric Karpeles

“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“You can get what you want. You have to passionately seek the life you desire.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“At some point you have to choose between life and fiction." The Words”

— The Words