Book Quote by Wendell Berry

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons…

— Mark Twain

“Banning books is tricky business, Vin—the more stink the Ministry makes about a text, the more attention it will draw, and the more people…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons…

— Mark Twain

“Though a work of literature can be read in a number of ways, this number is finite and can be arranged in a hierarchical…

— W H Auden

“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”

— Anonymous

“Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.”

— Amy Joy

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

— William Gibson

“Who is the writer here? YOU ARE. Whose book is it? YOUR BOOK. There are no writing police. No one is going to arrest…

— Rachel Aaron

[Confiscating a book and punishing its author] is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it…

— Laszlo Radvanyi

“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a…

— W.H. Auden

“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,”

— Charles Van Doren

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

— Claude Adrien Helvetius