#boo

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. ↗

— Paul Brown

#defeat #learn #line #win #you

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore. ↗

— Steve Brown

#american #anymore #booking #did #exhausted

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. ↗

— Steve Brown

#band #being #book #business #going

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#book #i #like #makes #more

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! ↗

— Dick Bruna

#child #i #jokes #make #parent

Each book first begins with a little idea. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#book #each #first #idea #little

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. ↗

— Steven Brust

#book #consists #cool #degree #like

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. ↗

— James Buchan

#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#book #possession #reading #substitute