#book

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love-of-books #reading #life

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #cure #ever #farmer #group

But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#food #food

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#cecelia-ahern #anger

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#book #come #defensive #find #first

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. ↗

— John Leonard

#fall #garry #leaves #like #maple

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #given #i #mind #myself

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#book #clear #done #had #head

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#always #books #happy #hear #i