The Fifteenth Century Bookshop, a photo essay

The Fifteenth Century Bookshop, Lewes, England

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library in order to make a book.

Samuel Johnson

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Thomas Jefferson

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

Stevie Smith

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

Erasmus Darwin

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stakes, the ovens, the mass graves.

Geraldine Brooks

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodksy

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt