#boo

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book. ↗

— Paul Auster

#books #greatest #greatest writers #had #hemingway

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#books #could #explain #had #knew

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#books #imagination #literary #lover #object

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #book #deeper #folk #gives

Americans like fat books and thin women. ↗

— Russell Baker

#fat #like #thin #women

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#called #doctor #dr #during #happened

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#actually #alan #book #came #down