57th Pacific Northwest Great Books Institute

Leave this field empty if you're human:

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P.G. Wodehouse

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that … Read more

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more … Read more

Alice Waters

If democracy is going to function as it should, the man-in-the-street is going to have to think bett… Read more

Robert Maynard Hutchins

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings… Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

There is no List with a capital L. The great books are simply the books which deal most incisively, … Read more

Milton Mayer

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understand… Read more

Salman Rushdie

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a youn… Read more

Maya Angelou