“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Ronald Reagan on Politics
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” 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
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
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
Sir Richard Steele on Reading
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” 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
Groucho Marx on TV and Books
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Books
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” Continue reading
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