books

"Harry Turtledove page at the Internet Book List"

"But can we go to posterity with a sheaf of loose pages, or ask the readers of those days, with the whole of literature before them, to sift our enormous rubbish heaps for our tiny pearls? Such are the…"

"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

"WorldCat Identities page for Hawthorne"

"His grammar is foolishly correct, offensively precise. It flaunts itself in the reader's face all along, and struts and smirks and shows off, and is in a dozen ways irritating and disagreeable. To be …"

"The Text is not a definitive object."

"Maddened with the zeal for exterminating the ‘Kafirs’ and making room for the establishment of an Islamic State in Northern India, the League-led Muslim mobs combed hundreds of villages as has already…"

"Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right."

"I read a couple of good books and realized the ethical implications of eating meat and the countless other ways of abusing animals and nature. It made me cry. There simply is no need for us to consume…"

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would d…"

"Why did the magic economy go away? Hundreds of books have been written on that topic. This isn't one of them ― although I'll devote part of a chapter to some plausible stories and take a number of sta…"

"Taylor author page and archive at The London Review of Books"

"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be servant of the society."

"Karl Marx wrote something like that in thick books that the Chettris have not read because reading is not what the Chettris do. Chettris do statecraft."

"My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to …"

"Citati - goodreads.com"

"Cathy" Online version of the book by Kate's brother, John Carder Bush"

"In the United States dramatically, here fortunately much less so, the book store as we have known it is dying. In the United States it is now largely an emporium, featuring music, records, Christmas c…"

"This museum is like a ghost train—at every stage you find a surprise. Intuition prepares you for enlightenment, not audio-visual lectures. There's less to read, more to fee."

"Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest."