#book

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ↗

— John le Carre

#cubes #having #into #like #movie

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#books #carefully #fine #god #learn

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#been #better #books #come #had

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. ↗

— Tom Felton

#goosebumps #i #kid #too #used

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

#books #bug #easy #fool #go

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. ↗

— Angela Carter

#bottle #container #idea #inside #like

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope