#boo

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #friends #here #i #keep

I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#books #bore #create #death #expecting

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#book #down #head #i #must

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#book #come #earth #important #important thing

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

A book that is shut is but a block. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#book #shut

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#gained #hath #learning #lost #most

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#happy #i #imagine #library #library book

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#book #both #father #library #me

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german