books

"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers."

"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."

"The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid."

"A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote."

"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."

"Do not read so much, look about you and think of what you see there."

"ABC of Anarchism, book by Alexander Berkman."

"I like to read a lot. I like the printed word. I find that structure–of words and sentences and paragraphs and chapters–a very good structure for writing music. Music also has a very linear quality on…"

"I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers…"

"They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion."

"They lockin' old white cookbook bitches up!"

"Once Koskela saw that the guns were ready to go, he called out, 'Shoot for their nuts!'"

"As Roland Barthes said, those who do not re-read condemn themselves to reading the same story everywhere: "they recognize what they already think and know."

"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a prob…"

"The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have bee…"

"Hypatia was a University lecturer denounced by Church dignitaries and torn to pieces by Christians. Such will probably be the fate of this book: therefore it bears her name. What I have written here I…"

"I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question t…"

"It was an interesting experience, to say the least.. The publication of the book quite thoroughly “blew my cover” as a reasonably orthodox business executive. However, a good many of the results were …"

"Rip It Up: They also met Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament and Mike McCready at the Reading Festival in the U.K. and, much to Daniel's delight, ran into Soundgarden's Chris Cornell in the same area backstage."

"Rainer , who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present…"