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 DickinsonTags: words books power literature meaning
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Italo CalvinoTags: writing literature language inadequacy-of-words dictionary
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Orson Scott CardTags: morality literature on-fiction fiction
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
Sophie KinsellaTags: motivational inspirational literature human-nature trust
I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.
Abigail ReynoldsTags: literature coffee
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Marina TsvetaevaTags: words reading books literature
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: words reading books literature
Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: murder literature suicide
A good book is an event in my life.
StendhalTags: reading books literature
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
Benjamin DisraeliTags: politics history literature britain
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