#book

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ↗

— John Berger

#book #covers #everything #four #happen

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#burning #causes #counseling #course #economics

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#books #burn #censorship #doing #like

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

The covers of this book are too far apart. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#book #covers #far #too

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#i #lot #moon #nowhere #view

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#counters #literature #money #only #science

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#enough #everybody #exactly #good #i

Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables. ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#calming-the-mind #food-for-thought #self-help-book #food

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#censorship #profanity #censorship