#books

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#funny #little #pieces #portable #thought

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#called #children #dark #directing #events

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. ↗

— Marilyn French

#drinks #everybody #geniuses #great #those

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#forms #suppress #terror #those #truth

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #deal #first #great #great deal

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #focus #genre #lot #mind

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #done #every #fifteen #hundred

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #every #i #i think #inspired

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#daily #demoralized #developed #education #else