#book

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#writing-books

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#reading-books

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#writing-books

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#writing-books

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#writing-process

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#writing-books

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#writing-books

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#chosen #enjoyable #few #friends #good

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#boy #dreadful #ever #got #how

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#books #buildings #design #europe #full