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Quote of the Day

26th Sat, Sep
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Topic: Books Author: August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
25th Fri, Sep
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
Topic: Books Author: Jasper Fforde
24th Thu, Sep
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Topic: Books Author: Lope de Vega
23rd Wed, Sep
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Topic: Books Author: Hilaire Belloc
22nd Tue, Sep
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Topic: Books Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
21st Mon, Sep
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now I am a Novelist.
Topic: Writer Author: John Green
20th Sun, Sep
Literature always anticipates life. It doesnt copy it but moulds it to its purpose.
Topic: Writer Author: Oscar Wilde
19th Sat, Sep
I must be lean amp write amp make worlds beside this to live in.
Topic: Writer Author: Sylvia Plath
18th Fri, Sep
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
Topic: Writer Author: James A. Baldwin
17th Thu, Sep
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Topic: Reading Author: Benjamin Franklin
16th Wed, Sep
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Topic: Reading Author: Austin Phelps
15th Tue, Sep
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Topic: Books Author: Iris Murdoch
14th Mon, Sep
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
Topic: Books Author: David Heyman
13th Sun, Sep
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Topic: Books Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
12th Sat, Sep
Any book which is at all important should be reread immediately.
Topic: Books Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
11th Fri, Sep
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Topic: Books Author: George Bernard Shaw
10th Thu, Sep
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Topic: Books Author: Francoise Sagan
9th Wed, Sep
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Topic: Books Author: Ramakrishna
8th Tue, Sep
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
Topic: Books Author: Salman Rushdie
7th Mon, Sep
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
Topic: Books Author: Thomas Jefferson
6th Sun, Sep
So many books, so little time.
Topic: Books Author: Frank Zappa
5th Sat, Sep
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Topic: Books Author: Elizabeth Moon
4th Fri, Sep
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Topic: Books Author: Horace Mann
3rd Thu, Sep
You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.
Topic: Books Author: Sherry K. Plummer
2nd Wed, Sep
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.
Topic: Books Author: William Shakespeare
1st Tue, Sep
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Topic: Books Author: Kathleen Thompson Norris
30th Sun, Aug
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Topic: Books Author: Bertrand Russell
28th Fri, Aug
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Topic: Books Author: Octavia E. Butler
27th Thu, Aug
Books are humanity in print.
Topic: Books Author: Barbara Tuchman
26th Wed, Aug
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Topic: Books Author: Hugh Blair