"But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse."
- China Miéville
"The hugest changes were the ones that could not be seen – that’s where the real apocalypse lay: in people’s hearts, their souls, their beings."
- Dianna Hardy
"Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits..."
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"If I have to face the end of human existence, I want to look totally smoking when it happens. Now shut the hell up."
- Angeline Trevena
"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist ..."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the pool table, snowshoes on the wall and the rowing machine, the armchair in which ..."
- Donna Tartt
"Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create."
- Luffina Lourduraj
"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming al..."
- Fernando Pessoa Ferreira