4 quotes found
“There is something talismanic about familiar words.”
“Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”
“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”
“He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But t...”
