Literature Quotes

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Man is the storytelling animal." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry " "To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you." "The good of a book lies in its being read." "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me." "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out " "It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it" "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all" "The mind-forg’d manacles I hear" "Words are all we have." "Reading can take you places you have never been" "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you." "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment." "There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house." "Science fiction pretends to look into the future, but it's really looking at a reflection of our current society." "It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."