#boo

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? ↗

— John Ruskin

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

#altogether #books #care #compared #horses

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game. ↗

— Mark Russell

#baseball #baseball game #because #beloved #booed

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. ↗

— Richard Russo

#book #heartbreaking #hilarious #i #i think

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #delight #doing #know #lot

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. ↗

— Richard Russo

#because #books #caring #character #going

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. ↗

— Richard Russo

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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. ↗

— Richard Russo

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