#book

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. ↗

— Carl Barks

#because #better #book #cover #covers

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#another #beginning #book #exercise #him

I've always been a big fan of books. ↗

— Amber Benson

#been #big #big fan #books #fan

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#books #children #desire #failure #fear

Being a writer is a good, good thing. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#books #story #writing #authority

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#wisdom #men

You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#books #inspiration #writing #inspirational

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men