Quotes About Discovery

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

You don't put your life into books. You find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Stava scoprendo che un libro tira l'altro; ovunque si voltava si aprivano nuove porte e le giornate erano sempre troppo corte per leggere quanto avrebbe voluto.

it is seldom at the frontier that discoveries are made but more often in the dustbin.

Stava anche scoprendo che un libro tira l'altro; ovunque si voltava si aprivano nuove porte e le giornate erano troppo corte per leggere quanto avrebbe voluto. Ma era dispiaciuta, e anche mortificata, al pensiero di tutte le occasioni che si era lasciata sfuggire.

Asked where his inspiration came from, he said fiercely: 'It doesn't come, Your Majesty. You have to go out and fetch it.

You don't put your life into your books. You find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Voiko olla suurempaa iloa kuin törmätä kirjailijaan, jonka teoksesta pitää, ja sitten huomata ettei hän ole kirjoittanut vain yhtä tai kahta kirjaa vaan yli kymmenen?

Non si mette la vita nei libri. La si trova.

think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach.

She listened to a life's story that was, she discovered, richer than it was sad.

She bought cleaning supplies and groceries at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, itself a revelation to her: so many kinds of food, so many different brands!

If you have ever followed a rainbow to its end, it leads you to the ground on which you are standing.

Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching. Finding represents the achievement of the goal of finding.

Seekers keep seeking, and finders keep finding.

If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.

Take the smallest step into a new room, and you will gain entrée to vast worlds you could not see when you clung to the familiar. Acknowledge who you are and how you want to live, and the doors to your destiny will swing open before you.

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.

Every journey you take leads you back to yourself.