The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words..

And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other, keep in mind that a book that entertai….

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be impr….

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell..

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people..

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion..

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of Engla….

Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, ….

What is not discussed, will not be advanced..

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature..

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life..

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -….

I am one of the crucified dead..

This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previousl….

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another..

There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there ar….

I think really good books can be read by anybody..

I specialize in science and history, with a special emphasis on including do-it-yourself projects in the mix. My dozen or so books have sold hundreds….

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear c….