“Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Bring the Pain (HBO, 1996)
“Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar"
Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change."
Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.”
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“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist
Source: My Reading Life
“You are not here to change the world. The world is here to change you.”
Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar
Attributed
“I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.”
Megan Whalen Turner (1965) American children's writer
“Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher
"Humanity", Ch.II "Ideologies: A way to live", Part IV
“Also by the way, I have found a title for this book. From Here to Eternity.”
James Jones (1921–1977) American author
Letter to Maxwell Perkins (21 October 1946); p. 80
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Context: Also by the way, I have found a title for this book. From Here to Eternity. Taken from the "Whiffenpoof" song, of Yale drinking fame. It goes: "We are little black sheep who have gone astray, baa... baa... baa. Gentlemen songsters out on a spree, damned from here to eternity. God have mercy on such as we. Baa, etc." Maybe it's maudlin, but so am I. I get chills every time I sing it, even when sober.
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Phlogiston interview (1995)
Context: When I started writing my first novel,... And Call Me Conrad, they always say: "Write about what you know" and I said "Well, if I get a nice sort of combination SF and Fantasy with these resonances from Greek Mythology it might be pretty good. It would also give me a chance to start filling in my background on all those things I don't know much about but should if I want to be an SF writer."
So I sat down and made a list of everything I felt I should know more about. Astrophysics, oceanography, marine biology, genetics... Then when I'd finished the list I read one book in each of these areas. When I'd finished I went back and read a second book until I'd read ten books in each area. I thought that it wouldn't turn me into a terrific, fantastic expert but I'd at least have enough material there to know if I was saying something wrong. And I'd also know where to turn to get the information I want to make it right.
While I was doing this, to keep the words and cheques flowing I wrote books involving mythology. And once I started picking up things involving astrophysics I'd write stories that played with those sorts of things. So that's why I started out with mythology.
