#book

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#books #focusing #helpful #into #just

I don't like when people say 'I can't believe I wasted the whole day reading.' Diving into another world to free your mind is hardly a waste. ↗

— Chris Stocking

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#book #ever #finish #i #months

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#reading #words #art

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself. ↗

— Malia Ann Haberman

#chase-tinker #ideas #imagination #magic #thoughts

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#ang lee #book #children #combination #comic

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. ↗

— Bill Murray

#back #because #books #brought #damn

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last. ↗

— George Murray

#been #books #change #deliberate #different

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#end #lives #many #tend #their

There is nothing to prove to anyone, just concentrate on your own needs. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money