Literature Quotes

Books change lives. Authors and readers reflect on the power of the written word.

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D
"She read with her eyes and her heart."
Death
L
"The pages of books were thicker than skin."
Liesel Meminger
D
"I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
Death
L
"The words. Why are they stuck to me?"
Liesel Meminger
D
"I wanted to ask her how the words tasted."
Death
D
"The words were given to her, and she kept them safe."
Death
P
"My story is mine alone to tell."
Piranesi
G
"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"He had learned from books exactly how to conduct his affections."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
B
"We are all stories waiting to be told."
Bast
A
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic."
Albus Dumbledore
S
"The Lord of the Rings is not a power-fantasy."
Shadow Moon
A
"We are stories that tell themselves."
Anansi
A
"Books are like humans. Some of them contain great wisdom. Some of them are just paper."
Aziraphale
W
"The most amazing thing about stories is that they're true."
Wit (Hoid)
S
"Stories are the only truth that matters."
Shadow Moon
M
"We live in a world of symbols and stories."
Mr. Wednesday
L
"You can't escape your own story."
Laura Moon
A
"Books are a form of magic that even those with no magical ability can practice."
Aziraphale
C
"The trouble with reading old books is that they make you think about the future in all the wrong ways."
Crowley
K
"Literature preserves the wisdom of ages past."
Kaladin Stormblessed
A
"Stories are the only immortality the gods have."
Anansi
M
"A man who doesn't know his story is a man lost."
Mr. Wednesday
W
"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."
Wit (Hoid)
W
"I am a man of words and of wit, but the pen is mightier than any sword."
Wit (Hoid)
A
"Books are mirrors of the soul."
Aziraphale
M
"Stories are currency in this country."
Mr. Wednesday
T
"The books were very interesting. They were about other books."
The Narrator
T
"It was not a dark and stormy night."
The Narrator
A
"Books are a wonderful escape from reality, but sometimes reality needs a good escape from books."
Aziraphale