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Tag: quotation of the week

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov

Quotation of the week

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” Thomas Mann

Quotation of the week

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Albert Camus

Quotation of the week

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.” Elie Wiesel

Quotation of the week

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Quotation of the week

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” W.E.B. Du Bois

Quotation of the week

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Berghahn Books

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

Quotation of the week

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“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 on January 14, 2013 by Berghahn Books

“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 on December 27, 2012 by Berghahn Books

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

Quotation of the week

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Berghahn Books

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