„I must tell you, sir, that yesterday the pharisaical devil was let loose, cursed me and my little book, and condemned the book to the fire.“

„It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.“

—  Judy Blume American children's writer 1938

As quoted in Literature for Today's Young Adults (1997) by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen, p. 392
Контексте: It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

„I discovered long ago that, if you write a book about cats or dogs, everybody loves you, but if you dare to write a book about human beings, all hell breaks loose. It is impossible to write an uncensored, honest book about human behaviour without offending at least part of your audience. If you feel you have a basic truth to tell, then you must tell it and be prepared to suffer the inevitable criticisms.“

—  Desmond Morris English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter 1928

Desmond Morris in: "The Dan Schneider Interview 8: Desmond Morris" at cosmoetica.com, first posted 2/16/08.

„Every one of my books had killed me a little more.“

—  Norman Mailer American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate 1923 - 2007

„I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.“

—  Franz Kafka, книга The Trial

Источник: The Trial

„I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.“

—  Karen Marie Moning, книга Darkfever

Источник: Darkfever

„If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.“

—  Amos Oz, книга A Tale of Love and Darkness

Источник: A Tale of Love and Darkness

„All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.“

—  Michel De Montaigne, книга Essays

Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!“

—  Geoffrey Chaucer, книга Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 1798
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

„I was never able to pray
but let me inscribe my name
in the book of waves.“

—  Edward Hirsch 1950

'I was never able to pray'

„You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book.
Well, your book is just wrong.“

—  Karen Marie Moning, книга Darkfever

Источник: Darkfever

„In this the Fire Book of the NiTo Ichi school of strategy I describe fighting as fire.“

—  Miyamoto Musashi Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584 - 1645

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

„Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text.“

—  Northrop Frye Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912 - 1991

2:495
"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

„Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.“

—  Cecelia Ahern Irish novelist 1981

Источник: The Book of Tomorrow

„Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.“

—  Haruki Murakami, книга Norwegian Wood

Источник: Norwegian Wood

„If those who despise us stone us as prophets, they must listen to us as prophets. If they curse us as sorcerers, they must learn to curse from us, as sorcerers.
Let us enlighten the young, and let us be condemned for corrupting the young, like Socrates. Let us awaken the old before they sleep forever, though they must read us in secret like the Kabbalah. […] The difficulties and successes of our books and magazines, and the rejection and misinterpretation of the films made from our ideas—are the flounderings of the human mind upon the Paleozoic shore. We are the sand in its gills; let's not lose our grit.“

—  Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931 - 2019

Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

„Books make dangerous devils out of women.“

—  Yxta Maya Murray American writer 1970

Источник: The Conquest

„Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.“

—  Italo Calvino Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923 - 1985

Источник: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler