“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, amazon.com
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”— Irving Stone, amazon.com
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Nora Ryan could only see part of the room. Sometimes something looked familiar, a face, an object, something. But it didn't look the way it used to. The space of her world had changed. She could hear talking; she heard the doctor saying that her right side was paralyzed and that she could not feel a…”— James Thomas Farrell, amazon.com
“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window — maybe rearrange all the furniture.”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”— John Green, amazon.com
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway, amazon.com
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, csmonitor.com
“Poetry writing is an immensely personal experience. Many people don't realize a poem is an extension of the poet. Such is the attachment that reading a poem may be interpreted as voyeuristic. Even if a poet practices to be published, for money, or does so in private - we do so for ourselves. We writ…”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel…. Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them i…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, ‘I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.”— Linh Dinh, poetryfoundation.org
“There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com