— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
As quoted in C.S. Lewis (1963), by Roger Lancelyn Green, p. 9
„Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write – and they do.“
Quelle: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.
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Mortimer Adler
US-amerikanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller 1902 - 2001Ähnliche Zitate
— William Dalrymple author and historian 1965
In Amrita Ghosh, Author in Focus: An Interview with Dalrymple http://www.cerebration.org/dalrymple.html, Cerebration.Org.
— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957
Reuters (November 17, 2006)
2007, 2008
— Sebastian Bach Canadian singer 1968
Chico Enterprise Record http://www.chicoer.com/buzz/ci_4825293 (December 12, 2006)
— Samuel Beckett Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906 - 1989
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009), p. 362
Kontext: I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
— Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle
Quelle: I Capture the Castle
— Alan Axelrod American historian 1952
Alan Axelrod in an interview with Frank R. Shaw, Aug 23, 2007 http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/axelrod.htm.
„This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.“
— William Goldman, buch The Princess Bride
Quelle: The Princess Bride
— Richard Scarry author and illustrator from the United States 1919 - 1994
— Debbie Dadey American children's writer 1959
Children's author Debbie Dadey visiting downtown library to sign books, brainstorm. https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/children-s-author-debbie-dadey-visiting-downtown-library-to-sign/article_bf6e4607-f0ba-5e73-a88f-64c9cb876bb2.html (July 29, 2013)
„I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Quelle: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
— G. I. Gurdjieff influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer 1866 - 1949
"Friendly Advice [Written impromptu by the author on delivering this book, already prepared for publication, to the printer" (1949)
All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
„When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.“
— Norman Mailer American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate 1923 - 2007
On Tough Guys Don't Dance as quoted in The New York Times (8 June 1984)
— Louis L'Amour Novelist, short story writer 1908 - 1988
Quelle: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
Kontext: How much of what we do is free will, and how much is programmed in our genes? Why is each people so narrow that it believes that it, and it alone, has all the answers?
In religion, is there but one road to salvation? Or are there many, all equally good, all going in the same general direction?
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
„I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.“
— Barbara Kingsolver American author, poet and essayist 1955
