#boo

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#read #reads #real #us

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it. ↗

— Bille August

#beginning #book #called #certainly #even

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ↗

— Paul Auster

#always #audience #book #books #encountering

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#because #book #christ #did #him

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#end #everything #exists #up #world

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#book #called #contest #got #grew

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. ↗

— Carl Barks

#because #better #book #cover #covers

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#above #awhile #boots #corridors #drawn

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first