"In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams."

Literature, Imagination, Reading, Escape, Youth

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"In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams."

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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Desire, Nostalgia, Memory

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Novel, Writing, Talent, Humanity

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

George Orwell, British Author

Literature, Writing, Prose, Creativity, Art

"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Literature, Books, Escape, Curiosity, Solitude

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Fiction, Fact, World, Imagination

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Literature, Storytelling, Problem, Solution, Imagination

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

John Green, American Author

Literature, Present, Death, Truth

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Literature, Poetry, Women, History, Creativity

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Literature, Storytelling, Memory, Meaning, Imagination

"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Literature, Writing, Legacy, Art, Affection

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"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."

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"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."

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"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."

Art

"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."

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"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

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"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

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"Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny."

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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."

"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."

"In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom."

"Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human."

"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."

"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."

"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."

"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."

"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny."