Interesting 'Bookie' Quotations

1. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs – Christopher Hampton.
   
2. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book – Edward Gibbon.
   
3. I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good – Seneca.
   
4. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter – Aliester Crowley.
   
5. A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people – Thomas Mann.
   
6. The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another. – John Constable.
   
7. There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it - Bertrand Russell.


8. A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you - Daniel J. Boorstein.


9. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination - Elizabeth Hardwick.


10. I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading - Henry G. Strauss.


11. The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books - Katharine Mansfield.


12. A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. - Edward P. Morgan.


13. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx.


14. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln.


15. TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they'll have with twenty-six. Open your child's imagination. Open a book. - Author Unknown.