"Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their ..."
- Maud Hart Lovelace
"Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up t..."
"It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be n..."
- John Erskine
"Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot..."
"The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation.."
- Richard J. Foster
"The main danger is that of supposing that the thing to do is get a mind on the scale of Thomas (Aquinas)’s into your head, a task of compression that will be achieved only at your head’s peril. The on..."
- Denys Turner
"Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery"."
- John Gay
"Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time."
- Pat Conroy
"Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all."
- Patricia Nedelea
"Be great, read great books."
- Lailah Gifty Akita