Books Quote by Solomon Northup

“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of many of…

— Ptahhotep

“Good for: Reminiscing. Gentle instruction. Putting readers at ease.”

— Stephen Coles

“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the…

— Jessie Burton

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“the assistant principal told me how he “loved to read a great novel and discuss the meaning of life.” He smiled, sighed wistfully, and…

— John Owens

“drawn up and signed by the proper parties, wherein Epps acknowledged he”

— Solomon Northup

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen

“It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never…

— Eudora Welty

“Reading manuscripts was the exact opposite of reading for grad school: it was pure instinct, with some emotion and intelligence thrown in.”

— Joanna Rakoff

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson