#literature

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right. ↗

— Annie Bryant

#children-s-books #children-s-literature #humanity #life-advice #self-assurance

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.) ↗

— Victor Hugo

#victor-hugo #life

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#ember #life

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#escape #literature #reading #words #life

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. ↗

— James Wood

#fiction #james-wood #literature #life

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

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