Quote #16

“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.” 

― Frederick Buechner

Quote #14

[Bonhoeffer] was read even by President George W. Bush, who's intellectually incurious as we've all read. NO PRESSURE.

- Eric Metaxas to President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 2, 2012

Quote #13

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

Quote #12

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. -Gilbert Highet, writer (1906-1978)

Quote #11

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -- Jerry Seinfeld

Quote #10

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. -- G. K. Chesterton

Quote #9

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

Quote #8

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Quote #7

"[He's] fooling hisself with eddication. I tried to stop it, but he got that fool idea in his head, and it can't be got out." -Thomas Lincoln, on his son, U.S. President and orater, Abraham Lincoln

Quote #6

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. --C.S. Lewis

Quote #5

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" --Henry Ward Beecher

Quote #4, Sor Juana

"...Podía conmigo más el deseo de saber de comer..." - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a Mexican nun who learned to read at age three, saying that as a child she had more desire for learning than for eating.

Quote #3

Last term I was waiting for a lit class to start and overheard a couple of girls discussing a recent bestseller promoted by Starbucks. One said, "What I want to know is where the kids in the orphanage got all that pot..." Not long after, I saw this quote: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." (Flannery O'Connor) I couldn't agree more!

Quote #2

"I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone." Mark Twain

Quote #1

"Frank Peretti kicked open the doors that all of us Christian novelists are passing through today. We owe him a huge debt." --Jerry Jenkins