Franz Kafka (July 03, 1883 – June 03, 1924) The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a …
Toni Morrison On Books And Questions
Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 -) My books are always questions for me. What if? How does it feel to ...? Or what would it look like if you took racism out? Or what does it look like if you have the perfect town, everything you ever wanted? And so you ask a question, put …
Langston Hughes On Books
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.
Christopher Morley On Books
Christopher Morley (May 05, 1890 – March 28, 1957) You can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
Carl Sagan On Books
Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate — with the best teachers — the insights, painfully …
John Quincy Adams On Books
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767–February 23, 1848) …I have been attempted to abandon my books altogether — This however is impossible — for the habit has so long been fixed in me, as to have become a passion, and when once severed from my books, I find little or nothing in life, to fill …
