#book

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#generous #greatest #minds #natural #reform

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#books #brother #could #faster #i

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#been #else #facebook #i #interested

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#book #every #great #great ideas #human

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consolation #derive #life #people #troubles

I cannot live without books. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cannot #i #live #without

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. ↗

— Irving Stone

#friendship #friendship

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#reading #friendship

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#writing #funny

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#humor #humor