books

"I wasn’t ready to believe in ghosts, but that’s the thing about empirical experience: it’s the real thing."

"The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works …"

"Nothing can sustain a system that is in overshoot... Resiliance... is not the strength to hold back the tide, but the strength to bend without breading as the tide inevitably rushes in."

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance."

"The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume …"

"I never intended to write solely about Arab characters, or even primarily about them, but because they were such a big part of my first two novels and my memoir, people reckoned that was my main liter…"

"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best."

"All that I have written seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me."

"has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels."

"Profile page: Peg O'Connor Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter's, Minnesota"

"Etexts at The University of Adelaide"

"I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading ‘Ta-Da!’ magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story."

"“The evidence of the Avestan meters confirms to the hilt the conclusions compelled by the evidence of the Avestan names: namely, that the Early and Middle Books of the Rigveda precede the period of co…"

"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons …"

"Quotes from Kirby Page's Jesus or Christianity"

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"Unique descriptions of scene play a significant role in the success of fiction, and any first-rate novelists knows enough to keep changing the scenes in which his characters carry out action, since th…"

"It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it."

"I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks…"