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 are so many books on white creators. We don’t have that as a culture
The language is not the main issue; rather the key is, in the end, the ideas that carry the book
It’s not that the book intends to be oblique in any way; it wants to be in dialogue with the reader
Writivism is arguably one of the best spaces showcasing African literature
Once I have a group of characters sorted out, the book writes itself
Write the books that you’d like to read; that’s the only way you can be sure others will read them
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
It was a rude, brutal and purposely ugly book. However, it was an honest book.
It is a journey that one never ends. I just have to keep on learning and growing in literature.
viii joins the later Avesta to post-Rik literature and the other General Books.