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Category Archives: “Quotation Marks”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway

Quotation of the week

Posted 28 January 2013 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway ° Tagged: ,

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury

Quotation of the week

Posted 14 January 2013 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury ° Tagged: ,

“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.” Roald Dahl

Quotation of the week

Posted 27 December 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.” Roald Dahl ° Tagged: ,

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” David Foster Wallace

Quotation of the week

Posted 14 December 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” David Foster Wallace ° Tagged: ,

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov

Quotation of the week

Posted 04 December 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov ° Tagged: ,

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou

Quotation of the week

Posted 10 October 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou ° Tagged: ,

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor

Quotation of the week

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“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” John Steinbeck

Quotation of the week

Posted 25 September 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” John Steinbeck ° Tagged: ,

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Quotation of the week

Posted 17 September 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt ° Tagged: ,

“If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison

Quotation of the week

Posted 11 September 2012 † Berghahn Books § "Quotation Marks" ‡ Comments Off on “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison ° Tagged: ,