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F. Sionil Jose has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I…
— John Banville
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.
— David Almond
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
— John Cowper Powys
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to…
— Frederick Busch
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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
— Virginia Woolf
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with…
— John Grisham
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able…
— William Gibson
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.…
— Salman Rushdie
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there…
— Will Self
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