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.
There should also be, at the level of the state itself, a book policy that helps creators...
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.(pg.18)
This book is an answer to Cherrie Moraga's valiant Loving In The War Years.
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.