Sign in with Facebook
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.”
―
―
“I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.”
―
―
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
―
―
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
―
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
―
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time.”
―
―
Sami’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sami’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Polls voted on by Sami
Lists liked by Sami
