Richard Wright Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Support, Environment

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

• The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

• It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Support, Alive

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

• It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Support, Abiding

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