„My cousin fancies you are an idiot. There you experience the consequence of scorning “book larning,” as you would say. Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful Yorkshire pronunciation?“

— Emily Brontë

Tags:

„Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.“
— Patricia Briggs
„It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can’t have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don’t rate it.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. My field is the history of thought. Man is a thinking being.“
— Michel Foucault
„Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.“
— Stephen King
„I have left my book,I have left my room,For I heard you singingThrough the gloom.“
— James Joyce