“ A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns. Franklin D. Roosevelt
“ Have you thought of an ending?Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. Anthony Burgess
“ Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities. Willie van Peer
“ I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. Aberjhani
“ Madem kimileri iyi insan olmayı seçiyor, madem bundan haz alıyorlar, onlara hayatta karışmam, kimse de bana karışmasın. Ama bana karışıyorlardı. Üstelik kötülük bireye özgüdür, sizlere, bana ve tek ta… Anthony Burgess
“ Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay… Christopher Hitchens
“ I am not afraid of giving bad reviews. If I don't like a book, I don't like it. Period. I don't do promotion Bookvergent
“ Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? Virginia Woolf
“ I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, wh… Kurt Vonnegut
“ And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer. Anthony Burgess
“ There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: and One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotional… John Rogers
“ Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. Christopher Hitchens
“ If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep… Mark Glamack
“ What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
“ There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children. W.H. Auden
“ I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. G.K. Chesterton
