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  • A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/jeanette-winterson-quotes' title='Jeanette Winterson Quotes'>Jeanette Winterson</a></span>
  • There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/alberto-manguel-quotes' title='Alberto Manguel Quotes'>Alberto Manguel</a></span>
  • Beneath my eyes opens - a book; I see to the bottom; the heart - I see to the depths. I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and th... <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/virginia-woolf-quotes' title='Virginia Woolf Quotes'>Virginia Woolf</a></span>
  • Life happened because I turned the pages. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/alberto-manguel-quotes' title='Alberto Manguel Quotes'>Alberto Manguel</a></span>
  • A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still h... <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/richard-flanagan-quotes' title='Richard Flanagan Quotes'>Richard Flanagan</a></span>
  • The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me-I have no others. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/thomas-bernhard-quotes' title='Thomas Bernhard Quotes'>Thomas Bernhard</a></span>
  • On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/marcel-proust-quotes' title='Marcel Proust Quotes'>Marcel Proust</a></span>
  • 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. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/michael-ondaatje-quotes' title='Michael Ondaatje Quotes'>Michael Ondaatje</a></span>
  • The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know - the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense u... <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/thomas-wolfe-quotes' title='Thomas Wolfe Quotes'>Thomas Wolfe</a></span>
  • Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/elizabeth-von-arnim-quotes' title='Elizabeth Von Arnim Quotes'>Elizabeth Von Arnim</a></span>
  • Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–... <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/diane-setterfield-quotes' title='Diane Setterfield Quotes'>Diane Setterfield</a></span>
  • We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/george-eliot-quotes' title='George Eliot Quotes'>George Eliot</a></span>
  • We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most sec... <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/alberto-manguel-quotes' title='Alberto Manguel Quotes'>Alberto Manguel</a></span>
  • One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/anne-bronte-quotes' title='Anne Brontë Quotes'>Anne Brontë</a></span>
  • I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company. <span class='nobr'><a href='http://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/anita-brookner-quotes' title='Anita Brookner Quotes'>Anita Brookner</a></span>
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. Jeanette Winterson

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