#book

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#between #book #life #milk #shelf

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#find #get #give #over #time

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#beach #book #carry #i #i can

I don't write books inadvertently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#i #inadvertently #write

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#been #books #hard #hard worker #how

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ↗

— Mark Twain

#contentment #friends #friendship #life #friendship

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#books #go #i #i love #like

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life. ↗

— Terri Windling

#book #collection #i #life #lived

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ↗

— Terri Windling

#book #editors #impose #own #plenty