#books

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#public #quarrels #their

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#books #burn #censorship #doing #like

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #lot #moon #nowhere #view

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#counters #literature #money #only #science

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#enough #everybody #exactly #good #i

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#censorship #profanity #censorship

more to be a human being with ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#artists #books #humanity #art

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#beauty

The perception of beauty is a moral test. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#beauty