Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read. . . This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.