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So many books, so little time. Frank Zappa Books 737
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound Books 410
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C.S. Lewis Books 302
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. Oscar Wilde Books 263
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. Thomas Jefferson Books 251
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. Salman Rushdie Books 210
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley Books 207
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. Marilyn Butler Books 169
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. David Mitchell Books 167
Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times. John Morley Books 165
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka Books 161
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to life beyond life. John Milton Books 143
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for living. Robert Louis Stevenson Books 140
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Books 129
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway Books 125
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. Stephane Mallarme Books 124
Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature John Moschitta Books 124
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Books 121
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle Books 121
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. Paul De Man Books 119
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. Roald Dahl Books 119
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise. Thomas Wharton Books 113
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna Books 113
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. Christopher Paolini Books 110
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi Books 110
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker Books 108
Looking for alaska first friend, first girl, last words. John Green Books 107
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity George Steiner Books 106
A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially. George Moore Books 106
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau Books 104
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. Lloyd Alexander Books 103
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. Frank Zappa Books 103
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. George Orwell Books 103
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Luigi Pirandello Books 102
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende Books 101
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced. Stanislav Grof Books 101
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat. Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)Books 101
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Books 101
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare Books 101
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Ezra Pound Books 101
You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book. Sherry K. Plummer Books 98
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt Books 97
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. John Ruskin Books 97
I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. Lee Child Books 96
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty Books 95
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust Books 95
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. Henry Ward Beecher Books 95
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. Henry James Books 95
There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. Jos Books 94
Literature is analysis after the event. Doris Lessing Books 93

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