“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
Groucho Marx on Books
J. W. Eagan on Books and Movies
“Never judge a book by its movie.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Books
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” Continue reading
Samuel Goldwyn on Writing
“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” 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
Isadora Duncan on Experience
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” 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
Seneca on Literature
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.” Continue reading
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