Peter Schilling - Books

Famous quotes containing the word books:

“It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
—Günther Grass (b.1927)

“The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)