“It's no accident that the Irish invented stream-of-consciousness literature. It was of absolute necessity. Poverty and the deprivation of their own language made this very important. Hence long-term memory, which is a Celtic thing.”— John Lydon, latimesblogs.latimes.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, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it’s beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It’s a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theparisreview.org
“I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.”— Sophie Kinsella, independent.co.uk
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting hap…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”— Isaac Babel, amazon.com
“Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.”— Joanne Harris, goodreads.com
“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”— Lawrence Durrell, amazon.com
“Nobody really knows or understands and nobody has ever said the secret. The secret is that it is poetry written into prose and it is the hardest of all things to do.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”— Raymond Carver, nytimes.com
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, amazon.com
“To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.”— Carlos María Domínguez, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com