#book

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#down #frees #imprisoned #like #shelf

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#either #evidence #figures #longer #own

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#cold #comfort #farm #favorite #gibbons

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#down #facts #kind #loose #more

My books are likely to contain food stains and rings from my tea cups. A book is to be lived with and used. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#truth #food

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

#bookstore #defeat #i #me #purpose

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to editions that I've had and lost, with various illustrators' work in them. It brings back moments sitting reading it with my mother. It brings back my first contact with the Disney cartoon. It brings back standing in the play-yard when I was a kid, when the wind was really blowing, and closing my eyes, spreading my arms and pretending I could fly. It brings back childhood dreams of flying. It brings back the first encounter I ever had with an invented world... Never Never Land was really the first journey I took to an invented world which I believed in wholly and completely. I remember the immense solidarity that I felt with the Lost Boys, with Peter, with the Indians - how much I wanted to be a Red Indian - how much the saving of Tiger Lily meant to me as a kid, how much I wanted to one day wake up and save an Indian squaw from drowning. ↗

— Clive Barker

#childhood #inspiration #reading #dreams

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. ↗

— Tom Felton

#because #books #character #defined #few

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part. ↗

— David Carradine

#before #books #comic #comic books #common