Inklings Literary Quotes & Sayings

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only ... We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness. — C.S. Lewis

Dream pleasantly.
Any dream is possibility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! — Jasper Fforde

She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself. — Rose Wynters

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn't deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies ... Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it. — Enrique Vila-Matas

What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility. — Aleksandar Hemon

Hosting is work. It means you don't get to go up to your room and disappear and take a nap. Like everybody else does after lunch. I'm talking about hosting, not hosting a dinner party, but hosting people staying in your home. — George Clooney

they expect the first mammoth in 5,000 years to be born. — Yuval Noah Harari

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join? — Laurell K. Hamilton

You give me courage I never knew I had. — Kim Holden

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part. — Mo'Nique

What you have is as much a part of you as the color of your eyes, the shape of your mouth. — Nora Roberts

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. — Ayn Rand

Without my Savior, I am nothing. — George Washington Carver

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. — Edward Abbey