Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Topic: Books Author: Alan BennettThere is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Topic: Books Author: Mario Vargas LlosaThe principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
Topic: Books Author: V. S. PritchettSpeak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Topic: Books Author: Lord ChesterfieldWhen I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
Topic: Books Author: Curtis SittenfeldEvery reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Topic: Books Author: Cornelia FunkeUnless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Topic: Books Author: Lawrence Clark PowellThat is a good book which opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Topic: Books Author: Amos Bronson AlcottWhen I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.
Topic: Books Author: Jean FritzThe one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Topic: Books Author: Francoise SaganWe are made whole By books, as by great spaces and the stars
Topic: Books Author: Mary Carolyn DaviesWhen I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Topic: Books Author: Elizabeth MoonBiography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Topic: Books Author: Thomas CarlyleBut a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Topic: Books Author: Mary Augusta WardPeople do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Topic: Books Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonShe is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Topic: Books Author: Louisa May AlcottA book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
Topic: Books Author: Geraldine BrooksComic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
Topic: Books Author: Michael ChabonWhen I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Topic: Books Author: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus