#book

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. ↗

— William Temple

#books #converses #ever #hard #new

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#education #knowledge #education

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#books #growing #growing up #horror #i

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. ↗

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

#difficult #easy #heart #know #loved

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies. ↗

— Keren Ann

#books #get #half #hour #i

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#books #commas #demand #footsteps #grammar

It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it. ↗

— Bille August

#beginning #book #called #certainly #even

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ↗

— Paul Auster

#always #audience #book #books #encountering