As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them th...
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Books are readable drugs.
When I think about books, I touch my shelf.
who gets the rare opportunity of spotting a treasure of memories lying among masses, stepping back to stroke it with a secret smile as your mind wanders back to those sleepless yet ecstatic nights you...
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w...
IF A THING IS WORTH HAVING, ITS WORTH CHEATING FOR.
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. I have kola, he announced when he sat down, and passed...
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!''Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!
Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
There are so many works of the mind, so much humanity, that to disburden ourselves of ourselves is an understandable temptation. Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcomin...
Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures.
Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.
To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.
there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.
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