A book exhales a subtle odor of spirituality throughout the place it adorns.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.
The greater pleasures of reading the LRB are thus paid for in a more erratic and limited horizon.
I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.
He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations.
Suppression of all harmful influences in literature and the press, stage, art and cinema.
"There's plenty o' chaps full of book learnin' an' unemployed with it."
Literature is a political act, not driven by utility, but by the essence of being human.
I fell in love with making art because of the images in children’s books.
Book people, no matter where they come from, are the best people!
What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?