Learning Quote by Thomas Nashe

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

— Lev Grossman

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in…

— Jeanette Winterson

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I…

— Claire Dederer

“It was always the bookish ones you had to be worried about. They knew shit.”

— Linsey Hall

“I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it,…

— Dean Koontz

“It was hard to explain, but there just seemed to be something in the air here. Whatever it was, it made everyone more serious…

— Amanda Ripley

“Nettie scanned the shed for anything useful, but all she saw were big, clumsy things, like hoes and plows and men.”

— Lila Bowen

“Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.”

— Terry Pratchett

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying.…

— Virginia Woolf