#book

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. ↗

— David Baldacci

#book #classified #classified information #does #end

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. ↗

— Iain Banks

#books #films #make #reckoning #usual

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#cents #course #grain #hated #hemingway

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #feelings #i #like #me

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#energy policy #jobs #lack #our #out

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

I am a cookbook fanatic. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#cookbook #fanatic #i #i am