Books Quote by Bienvenido L. Lumbera

“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of…

— Umberto Eco

“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk,…

— Gunter Grass

“So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say…

— Geraldine Brooks

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”

— Donna Leon

“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their…

— Remy de Gourmont

“Now, in Scribner's window, I saw a book called The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy. I went inside, and took it off the shelf, and…

— Thomas Merton

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these libraries were…

— Anders Rydell

“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that…

— Lee Siegel

“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”

— Roger Shattuck

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

— Ouida

“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”

— C.S. Lewis