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“Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.” — Ford Maddox Copy Share Image
“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.” — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!” — Storytime Corner Copy Share Image
“Saints and bodhisattvas may achieve what Christians call mystical union or Buddhists call satori--a perpetual awareness of the force at the heart of the… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“...nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Although "making love" may serve as a polite name for an act that has many rude ones, it's misleading. For lovers do not so… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“Home is not where you have to go but where you want to go; nor is it a place where you are sullenly admitted,… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.” — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
“She wanted to live lightly on the earth, in harmony with its rhythms, all her senses keen and her mind alive and her spirit… — Scott Russell Sanders Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
