Book Quote by Zachary Lazar

“Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“The idea that one will die is more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead, that, becoming…

— Marcel Proust

“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one…

— Michelle Richmond

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

“If you have ever fucked up in your life, or if the great river of sadness that runs through us all has touched you,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were…

— Frank Conroy

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“There are days when I get lost in the business of surviving in this world. I stop and enter my closet of writing, at…

— Marsha Gomes-Mckie

“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors…. Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it”

— Jason Calder

“Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find…

— Armistead Maupin

“[Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper…

— Duncan Smith