The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald Category: Books
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner Category: Books
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair Category: Books
What the candystore was to other kids, the bookstore was to me. The library was my vacation. – Terri Guillemets, “Young bookworm,” 1998 Category: Books
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. – Gertrude Stein Category: work
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke Category: good
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. – Gilbert K. Chesterton Category: great
