1001 Books Quotes

“She knew that there was nothing heroic or obviously dramatic in it, no magic of rare hours, nor valiant challenge, but it seemed to her that she was of some significance because she was commonplaceness, the ordinary life of the age, made articulate and protesting.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Main Street

“Not only is it not necessary to read “Interview With the Vampire” by Anne Rice before you die, it is also probably not necessary to read it even if, like Lestat, you are never going to die. If I were mortally ill, and a well-meaning friend pressed Anaïs Nin’s “Delta of Venus” into my trembling hands, I would probably leave this world with a curse on my lips.”
― William Grimes

“If tales are important, they must be well-shaped.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“The book of my deeds is read and then there is heaven or there is hell.”
― James Plunkett, The Trusting and the Maimed