books

"I have long known of Mr. Shaw, read his plays and prefaces, and loved him. I admire heroic effort. Accomplishment I love. What I am about to say is no invention, and I am putting it down for whatever …"

"In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets a…"

"The various branches of geometry are all interrelated closely and quite often unexpectedly. This shows up in many places in the book. Even so... it was necessary to make each chapter...self-contained.…"

"Irish generosity extended not only to a variety of people but to a variety of ideas. ...they brought into their libraries everything they could lay their hands on. ...Not for them the scruples of Sain…"

"The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin edited by Henry Hardy"

"How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!"

"The Book of Five Rings"

"An Old Book of Geography" Household Words: A Weekly Journal Vol. 9, p.75 by Charles Dickens"

"The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users."

"Loujain al-Hathloul on Facebook."

"Ever since my extraordinary encounter with that big cream-colored wolf in the zoo near Thetford, I had wanted to see and know more about these creatures that had so preyed on my imagination as a child…"

"Any painter who thinks he has something to say to the people, or anything to contribute to the world of ideas or literature, is treading dangerous ground; the influence of literature on painting is at…"

"An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Bergson, etc. But a rather singular position in this list would be assigned…"

"We don't get weapons contracts, nigga / We don't get cheap labor for our company, nigga / We ARE cheap labour, nigga / Turn off the news and read, nigga / read..."

"I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for themselves."

"I was a bookish kid. I spent long hours in the library reading everything I could find, histories, biographies, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries. I was curious about the world and there’s no better…"

"The desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a child that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping."

"My own ancestors. I come from poor, landless peasants who left no records. And so I began to read the story of Puerto Rico, and the more I read the story the more I realized I would never find my own …"

"Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid."

"Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities."