Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to …
Quote for Today: Hazel Rochman
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to …
Quote for Today: Sherman Alexie
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read?… …
Quote for Today: Verlyn Klinkenborg
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her …
Quote for Today: Alberto Manguel
No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may …
Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. …