#book

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#guided #i #i do #out #question

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy. ↗

— Alan Bates

#book #comedy #even #go #you

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#comes #company #conversation #full #good

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#human #human nature #nature #weak #where

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#public #quarrels #their

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. ↗

— John Berger

#book #covers #everything #four #happen

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#choice #deny #found #human #i

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#books #culture #films #form #humiliated

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans. ↗

— Lance Bass

#been #book #fans #i #many

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted