#book

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year. ↗

— Larry Elder

#books #just #just one #last #many

They have this big book called the "DSM-IV," you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people! ↗

— William Glasser

#big #book #called #crazy #crazy people

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. ↗

— Anatole France

#books #everybody #nobody #reads #those

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. ↗

— Anatole France

#ever #folks #i #left #lend

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#cut #dreams #either #swords #words

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bought #bound #boy #british #children

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

If you think you have it tough, read history books. ↗

— Bill Maher

#history #history books #read #story books #think

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. ↗

— Ken Follett

#books #characters #decorative #masculine #often