Books Quote by James K. Morrow

“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

“For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them. The rest…

— M.Z.Riffi

“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base…

— Robert Burton

“The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit…

— Charles Colson

“Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion, Scarce can endure delay of execution, Wait with impatient readiness to seize my Soul in a moment. Damned…

— William Cowper

“Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion:…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms”

— Anton Chekhov

“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

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low…

— W.H. Auden

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern…

— Lionel Trilling