#book

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#half #library #make #man #over

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#everybody #knows #life #my life #open

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#around #attitude #away #bland #books

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ask #been #book #different #different world

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#books #cemetery #dreams #echoes #goals

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#dinner #dinner parties #go #i #i write

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#book #down #even #funny #i

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#books #couple #divided #life #music

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially