#era

What, what am I to do with all of this life? ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. ↗

— Sophocles

#literature #sophocles #life

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character. ↗

— Lisa See

#about #because #character #characters #create

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125 ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#literature #reading #life

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature ↗

— Anita Brookner

#literature #ruined #life

Life happened because I turned the pages. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#literature #reading #words #life

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#anxiety #attitude #bombs #chance #contemporary

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life ↗

— Martin Amis

#literature #on-fiction #life

as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships. ↗

— James K. Morrow

#real-life #life

We human being build houses because we`re alive but we write books because we` re mortal. We live in groups because we`re sociable but we read because we know we`re alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one`s place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is.” p.174 ↗

— Daniel Pennac

#literature #reading #life