“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
Category Archives: Literature
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” 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
George Bernard Shaw on Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” Continue reading
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
George Orwell on Language
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” Continue reading
An English Professor on Writing
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.” Continue reading
William Shakespeare on Honesty
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies on Books
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” Continue reading
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