#boo

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

A book that is shut is but a block. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#book #shut

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#gained #hath #learning #lost #most

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#happy #i #imagine #library #library book

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#book #both #father #library #me

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#both #brother #called #children #did

I will try to write books until I drop dead. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dead #drop #i #try #until

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#books #i #old #only #over

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying