#book

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. ↗

— Ann Rule

#away #back #battered #books #cause

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come. ↗

— Ann Rule

#book #come #doing #done #hopper

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#ignore #like #offer #own #return

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #because #books #disappointing #know

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#books #clearly #concerned #gallery #i

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. ↗

— John Ruskin

#classes #divided #hour #into #time

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buying #reading #worth #worth reading

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #book #give #how #large

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

— John Ruskin

#books #few #hours #life #none