“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Source: Tales of Burning Love
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Paul Dini (1957) writer
Harley Quinn co-creator Paul Dini discusses how Batman helped him heal https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/paul-dini-batman-dark-night-harley-quinn-interview/ (June 21, 2016)
Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Paul Klee, in an autobiographical text for Wilhelm Hausenstein, 1919; as quoted in 'Klee & Kandinsky', 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016 https://www.zpk.org/en/exhibitions/review_0/2015/klee-kandinsky-969.html <br class="br">1916 - 1920
Mark Satin (1946) American political theorist, author, and newsletter publisher
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Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada (1968)
Shaun Ellis (1977) American football player, defensive end
I howled for the woman I loved... and she howled back - British wolfman tells how his obsession drove away the love of his life http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1245507/I-howled-woman-I-loved--howled--British-wolfman-tells-obsession-drove-away-love-life.html, Daily Mail, (23 January, 2010)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Quote in 'Caspar David Friedrich's Medieval Burials', Karl Whittington - http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring12/whittington-on-caspar-david-friedrichs-medieval-burials <br class="br">undated
Hélène Binet (1959) Swiss photographer
Source: Jonathan Glancey, in The dream life of buildings http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/apr/15/artsfeatures, The Guardian, 15 April 2002
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist