Books Quote by Raymond Carver

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But…

— Raymond Carver

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.”

— Peter Lynch

“[...] under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world. Far from being its master as he pretended…

— Henry James

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan