#book

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#chivalry #end #fathers #led #man

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. ↗

— Jane Asher

#also #book #come #complete #illusion

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#brother #chronicles #comic #comic books #growing

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

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

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comic #comic book #dennis #done #ever

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#book #books #each #finger #fingerprints