The point of books

I've been rummaging around, looking for answers. Here are some compelling ones.

-Fiction is the most fundamental human art. Fiction is storytelling, and our reality arguable consists of the stories we tell about ourselves.

-Creativity starts in the well of human feeling which for want of a better single word we call the soul.

-I hoped that the book would actually tell me how to live.

-That I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

-There’s never been much love lost between literature and the marketplace. The consumer economy loves a product that sells at a premium, wears out quickly or is susceptible to regular improvement.

-The writers is situated on the margins of culture. But isn’t this where he belongs? This is the perfect place to observe what’s happening at the dead centre of things… The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become.

-Ever since man became capable of free speculation, their actions have depended upon their theories as to the world and human life.