Books
- Wish You Were Here (novel) (1998), by Tom Holt
- Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams (2003), a biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb
- Wish You Were Here (2007), a novel by Mike Gayle
- Wish You Were Here (2002), a novel by Stewart O'Nan
- Wish You Were Here: The English at Play (1977), a photobook by Patrick Ward with text by James Cameron
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“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“All ... forms of consensus about “great” books and “perennial” problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of “what is already known.” Those great books don’t only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)