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It's a philosophical library of Epicurean texts from a time when this philosophy influenced the most important classical Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace and Cicero, there needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers. – Juergen Hammerstaedt	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is no evidence in this record, none, of any market harm to the authors. – Seth Waxman	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders. – Stephen Vizinczey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them. – John Selden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. – Louise Guiney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves. – Mark S. Hertzog	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. – Pliny the Elder	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. – Colin Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword. – Julie Arabi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. – Rene Descartes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's a philosophical library of Epicurean texts from a time when this philosophy influenced the most important classical Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace and Cicero, there needs to be much work before one can virtually unroll carbonized papyrus because one will have to develop a digital method that will allow us to follow the layers.

– Juergen Hammerstaedt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is no evidence in this record, none, of any market harm to the authors.

– Seth Waxman

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

– Robertson Davies

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

– Salman Rushdie

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

– Stephen Vizinczey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

– Charles Caleb Colton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

– Washington Irving

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

– John Selden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

– Louise Guiney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

– J. K. Rowling

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

– Robertson Davies