books

"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."

"Editions and Revisions. The printed Bible text of Luther had the same fate as the written text of the old Itala and Jerome's Vulgate. It passed through innumerable improvements and mis-improvements. T…"

"Kenneth Patchen, A Tribute Page" at recollectionbooks.com"

"The Little Buds by Abel Azcona. Book of biographical stories written by Abel Azcona."

"Boredom often stems from the lack of desire to reinvent oneself. To become a Renaissance man or woman, for instance, can take an eternity. Understandably, not everyone wants to be a polymath, but ther…"

"The only thing rarer than louts who think is louts who read."

"When is this guy going to admit he's simply an anti-American communist? Won't he and his leftist wife simply go away???? Enough already."

"Spielberg's bibliography for the film Schindler's List at the UC Berkeley Library website"

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software."

"Never pursue literature as a trade."

"The most cursory look at cold-reading and suggestion tells us that Tarot cards are not evil; psychics do not ‘usher in’ the Devil or his minions; and even the creepy old Ouija board can be shown to op…"

"The book to end all books. The final book. After this, there is no more writing, no more publishing."

"The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy booki…"

"A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and som…"

"We want to get a good deal that abolishes the anti-democratic backstop. But if we can't get a good deal, we'll have to leave without one. This additional £2.1bn will ensure we are ready to leave on 31…"

"In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me th…"

"I feel like over the years, I’ve become more invested in a kind of written spoken voice. And connected to that, that I’m interested in the audience in a different way than I was before. I’m interested…"

"“You are not the sum of your Google searches, Amazon purchases, and Facebook likes. Your online activities should not define you as a person. But, increasingly, they do."

"The Book on Mediums by Allan Kardec"

"How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it."