Quotes from Frederick Philip Grove

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

A life is the gradual approach, through an infinite number of compromises, to a preconceived goal, to an ideal, a dream or vision which may never be completely realized

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.