“It sounds extraordinary, but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.”
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.
Reading opens one’s mind to different things and different worlds and expands horizons
The success of African literature will be based on a pan-African approach to literature
When I sat down to write this book, I had three different sets of readers in mind.
This is the book that will show you how you should live your life