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.
When a unit of any work–book, audiobook, song, music video, and short or feature films sold.
The second book is always a challenge because of the reception the first book received
Literature is a powerful tool for environmental activism and social change."
A book you read when you were a child will read differently when you pick it up later.
Dictatorships are more afraid of literature than writers are.