...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

bianglala

"I could spend the rest of my life in only the presence of books and be happy."

Lourdes

seribulan

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Paxton Hood

QueenBey

Of Mice And Men
Author: John Steinbeck


"Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

QueenBey

Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison


“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

QueenBey

L.A. Confidential
Author: James Ellroy


“Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You’re in with the former, but my God I don’t envy the blood on your conscience.”

QueenBey

On The Road
Author: Jack Kerouac


“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

QueenBey

1984
Author: George Orwell


"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

QueenBey

The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood


"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

QueenBey

The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells


“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

QueenBey

Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy


"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."

QueenBey

Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë


"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

QueenBey

The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy


“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

QueenBey

American Psycho
Author: Bret Easton Ellis


"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."

QueenBey

Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

QueenBey

A Room With A View
Author: E.M. Forster


“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm - yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”

QueenBey

Kafka on the Shore
Author: Haruki Murakami


"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

QueenBey

Ulysses
Author: James Joyce


"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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The Mysterious Island
Author: Jules Verne


"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason."

QueenBey

London Fields
Author: Martin Amis


"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

QueenBey

The Scarlet Letter
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne



“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”