#boo

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#ambition #book #going #happens #least

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#almost #any #author #beat #book

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#am #back #book #book tour #care

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#apostle #book #hardly #into #likely

Everybody writes a book too many. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#everybody #many #too #writes

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#asked #bbc #book #english #favorite

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#anything #baseball #books #called #else

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best friend #book #books #friend #get

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#reading #men