The City Of Dreaming Books Quotes

#1. I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

Joe Lhota

#2. I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.

Walter Moers

#3. I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

Iron & Wine

#4. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Walter Moers

#5. He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

Laini Taylor

#6. Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.

J.D. Salinger

#8. There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.

Walter Moers

#9. Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than authors; they're called artists.

Walter Moers

#10. One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Bill Nye

#11. I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Walter Moers

#12. No one who writes a good book is really dead.

Walter Moers

#13. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Walter Moers