#boo

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#begin #big #boomer #elephant #elephants

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#books #country #doing #grounded #i

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#celebrating #getting #mocking #need #purpose

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#book #civilization #fast #future #guide

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#books #even #sacred #therefore

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. ↗

— Benny Green

#get #hobbies #i #listen #lot

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books. ↗

— John Green

#also #big #books #contains #conversations

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#book #books #collaboration #every #i

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. ↗

— John Green

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