“Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.”— Carl Sagan Related Quotes “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”— Heinrich Heine “Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”— John Cheever “He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the enterprise fascinated him; he read emotionally, as other men read pure literature, and his heart leaped as he discovered in noble words what himself had obscurely felt.”— W. Somerset Maugham