ideas

Your Presentation is Your Capability.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come.

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level _ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.