#books

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely. ↗

— John Hume

#answer #books #history #i #i think

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. ↗

— David Icke

#breaks #clear #distinct #down #groups

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#because #begun #books #makes #many

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#books #course #critically #day #every

This book is full of empty love quotes. If you are looking for the meaning of life and love, then this book is for you. You won’t find the answers here, of course, but you’ll be more encouraged than ever to keep on looking. Or maybe you’ll be discouraged. Either way, I’ll have your money, and you’ll have no answers. Sounds like a fair deal to me. 
 ↗

— Dora J. Arod

#book #books #buy #deal #discouraged

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#biographies #book #books #doors #editor

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#books #burn #curious #draw #father

Let others see their recreation, in beautiful songstresses and wine, What we offer are literary gatherings and books, As recreations of the minds. ↗

— Ibn Durayd

#beauty

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love-of-books #reading #life