“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Samuel Johnson on Writing
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.” Continue reading
Isadora Duncan on Experience
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Books
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” Continue reading
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
Arnold Lobel on Books
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Literature
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Continue reading
Japanese Proverb About Reading
“If you believe everything you read, better not read.” Continue reading
Jules Renard on Literature
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
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