Baileyworks > Baileyworks's Quotes

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”
― Alberto Manguel

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits