#book

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. ↗

— Emily Watson

#entertained #grew #i #lots #meant

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#educators #experience #more #observation #persons

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more

I have represented people in book deals. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#deals #i #people #represented

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#better #book #earlier #favorite #last

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#book #elegance #elements #first #first time

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#books #brother #get #hand #i

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#example #feel #for example #like #people

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#always #book #bought #called #come