"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."

Literature, Libraries, Poets

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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

John Green, American Author

Literature, Books, Creativity, Life, Art

"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Literature, Fame, Legacy, Universe, Light

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Literature, Shakespeare, Writing

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Literature, Reading, Memory, Brother, Poetry

"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Literature, Writing, Reading, Decline

"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Literature, Gender, Humor, Satire

"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Literature, Creativity, Expression, Escape

"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."

Aberjhani, American Historian

Literature, Poetry, Expression, History, Creativity

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

Nora Roberts, American Author

Literature, Fiction, Empathy, Emotion, Connection

"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Literature, Reading, Emptiness, Observation, Silence

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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

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"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."

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"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

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"Character is destiny."

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"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."

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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"

"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."

"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."

"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"

"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."

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"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."

"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."

"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."

"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."

"The sun is new each day."

"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

"A man's character is his fate."

"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

"Character is destiny."

"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."