The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Books Quotes
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Only your friends steal your books.
