Literature Quotes

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins" "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how " "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore" "I am the darker brother, they send me to eat" "Books are a uniquely portable magic" "Every man's memory is his private literature." "But writing is the act of trawling the shadows to find the heart shaped glare" "We live through the books. Through them, we are able to function well as citizens of the world" "I shall not wholly die; much of me will escape Death" "A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy for there in a book you may find encouragement and comfort" "Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar" "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer" "Life is too short to read a bad book" "To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic"