Quote by Julie Kagawa

“One night, bored and restless, I found a stack of dusty board games in a closet, and bullied Ash into learning Scrabble, checkers and…

— Julie Kagawa

“...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.”

— Russell Shorto

“In the beginning was the word, and that word was probably misconstrued by someone who then made it into a personal issue and started…

— Ade Bozzay

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

— Luther L. Bohanon

“He compiled lists of old words too – words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in today’s world,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words for swords,…

— Mark Forsyth

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.”

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

“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

“Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!”

— Malcolm Lowry

“A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings…

— H G Wells

“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did…

— Glenway Wescott