“How easy sleep comes when some piece of me touches any piece of you.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.com
“Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a…”— James Dean, wordsfortheyear.com
“I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com
“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.”— Alyxandra Harvey, amazon.com
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Every word leaves a memory in your heart – and it the sum of these memories that form sentences, paragraphs, books.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“Literature cannot develop between the categories 'permitted'—'not permitted"—'this you can and that you can't.' Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literatur…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the conf…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org
“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation…woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”— Edgar Allan Poe, goodreads.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”— Flannery O’Connor, amazon.com
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com