#book

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#confident #control #feel #going #hand

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. ↗

— Richard Wright

#beaten #books #dream #experience #i

I'd never have written the big books in London. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#books #i #london #never #written

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books. ↗

— David Copperfield

#books #by the time #came #doing #easy

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#book #direct #forced #i #movies

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#books #else #i #important #man

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#had #i #i do #i wish #kid

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. ↗