Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

– Carlos Ruiz Zafron

We all have our connections with literature, wittingly or not so wittingly.

– Martin Amis The Information

If God were too eager to please, who would worship Him?

– John Updike In the Beauty of the Lillies

A man can think his mind to a nub and not know anything about God. He’s got to die, I reckon to find out…

– A.B. Gutherie, Jr The Big Sky

A writer cannot change the world; his duty is to describe it.

– John Hersey The Conspiracy

Because reading presupposed a future. It had to do with fortification.

– Martin Amis London Fields

Belief is believing in God; faith is believing that God believes in you.

– Christina Henriquez, from Andres Dubus “A Father’s Story” in “Come Together, Fall Apart”

Books are where things are explained to your; life is where things aren’t.

– Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot