Books Quote by Stanislas Dehaene

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.”

— Robin Hobb

“The wolf loved being in the woods. It stirred something in it that was so satisfyingly primal it felt like the bliss of breathing.…

— Sarah Noffke

“Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.”

— Sherry Thomas

“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.”

— Roman Payne

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From…

— Jeff VanderMeer

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

— Edouard Bourdet

“As neanderthals, writing on the caves, I write as a way to behave”

— J. Michael Wahlgren

“There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes, and was a human being, but nevertheless he…

— Hermann Hesse

“If you look at it a bit more deeply, ‘crying wolf’ is a cry for help that’s not about a wolf.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.”

— Osip Mandelstam