#book

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. ↗

— George Byron

#down #keep #never #reading #single

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#books #calling #i #novels

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#bees #books #carry #mind #quickening

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#back #bobby #book #collected #come

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#live #master #read #them #you

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#book #had #i #joy #longer

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bring #buy #children #his #house

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book. ↗

— Steve Martin

#book #feed #following #four #had

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it. ↗

— Steve Martin

#books #bought #discipline #doing #enjoyed

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. ↗

— Steve Martin

#basic #book #down #earl #get