Em > Em's Quotes

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
― Henry Green

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt