top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Standard
Customized
More
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
Anthropology
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
American
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
Diversity
"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
Meaning
"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
History
bottom of page