The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and...

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...

What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of “The Purloined Letter” successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet...

Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one’s wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures...

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a...

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

My soul is in the sky.

This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a...

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of...

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to...

The only problem i had with literature that I simply couldn’t figure out was that the correct answer was the first thing that comes to your mind after reading the question, the most obvious one....

What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.

When you write a story, don’t just write it – live it;When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character) imagine yourself saying them and while writing about the reaction of the...

Literature for me isn’t a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Demka açık fikirli bir çocuktu; dinin kişiyi uyuşturan bir inanış olduğunu, yalnızca kötü kişilerin yararlanabileceği gerici bir öğretim niteliği taşıdığını kesinlikle, açıkça anlamıştı. Din yüzünden bazı bölgelerdeki işçiler sömürülmekten kurtulamıyorlardı. Oysa dinle ilişkilerini keser kesmez...

What is so special about a title? The mode and significance of titles have changed with the change in the lyrical traditions. So these transitions in style and the art of signification are all collective....

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It’s asking us to stop...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside...

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis,...

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into...

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

It’s your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered...

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if...

please,Tana,please.’ -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.

I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he’d printed. He said “I’ll just print another ten.

She’s the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She’s the self-made girl!(…)Well, to begin with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn’t self-made at...

I always thought it was Mo Be Dick. I know Mo, and he is a dick.

I carry my liberty with me. It is in my thoughts, in my head. Shakespeare is one of my countries, Goethe another. You can change that badge that I wear, but you can’t change the...

Her neyse, hep, büyük bir çavdar tarlasında oyun oynayan çocuklar getiriyorum gözümün önüne. Binlerce çocuk, başka kimse yok ortalıkta yetişkin hiç kimse, yani benden başka. Ve çılgın bir uçurumun kenarında durmuşum. Ne yapıyorum, uçuruma yaklaşan...

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

The poet is a faker / Who’s so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

On THE AMBER SPYGLASS:”If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff...

If I could describe myself, I’d say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and romance, but sci-fi and action have a big slice of my heart. When...