AlwaysReading > AlwaysReading 's Quotes

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”
― Anne Sexton

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Ink, a Drug.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”
― Martin Amis (Author)

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”
― Harper Lee

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed — then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature