Eme > Eme's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 51
« previous 1
sort by

  • #1
    Paul Auster
    “I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”
    Paul Auster, The Red Notebook: True Stories

  • #2
    Irvine Welsh
    “You can't lie to your soul.”
    Irvine Welsh, Porno

  • #3
    Tuli Kupferberg
    “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
    Tuli Kupferberg

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #5
    Nora Roberts
    “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
    Nora Roberts, Vision in White

  • #6
    Hettie Jones
    “Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
    Hettie Jones

  • #7
    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #8
    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #9
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #11
    Charlaine Harris
    “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
    Charlaine Harris

  • #12
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #14
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

  • #17
    James  Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    James Burke

  • #18
    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

  • #19
    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    Connie Willis, Passage

  • #20
    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

  • #21
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #22
    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #23
    Tami Hoag
    “We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
    Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

  • #24
    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

  • #25
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #26
    Keri Hulme
    “I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
    Keri Hulme

  • #27
    Ama Ata Aidoo
    “Humans, not places, make memories.”
    Ama Ata Aidoo

  • #28
    Anna Sewell
    “It is good people who make good places.”
    Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

  • #29
    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.”
    Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

  • #30
    John Masefield
    “The days that make us happy make us wise.”
    John Masefield



Rss
« previous 1