books

"I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone."

"Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance."

"The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible."

"Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source , the Text is without a source — the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text."

"One cannot review a bad book without showing off."

"Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his."

"There are four distinct bases on which a system-design book might be organized. First are the chronological phases through which the system-design effort passes, such as organization and preliminary d…"

"Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."

"This Cézanne , that you ask me for is a pearl of exceptional quality and I already have refused three hundred francs for it; it is one of my most treasured possessions, and except in absolute necessit…"

"Let us not admit discourses by Epicureans or Pyrrhonists – though indeed the gods have already in their wisdom destroyed their works, so that most of their books are no longer available. Nevertheless,…"

"I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked…"

"Libertarian Communist Library Murray Bookchin holdings"

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own."

"International Poetry Forum Readings"

"Books written by St Teresa of Avila including St John of the Cross"

"The Online Books Page for Thomas De Quincey"

"During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War."

"But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education , about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.…"

"My observations are those of a beginner. As they are completely fresh in my mind and concern the first difficulties a beginner encounters, they may be more useful to beginners making their first ascen…"

"The success story of the word postmodernism demands to be written, no doubt in best-seller format; such lexical neoevents, in which the coinage of a neologism has all the reality impact of a corporate…"