Transformative Literature Quotes

There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.