#books

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#act #art #audience #been #books

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#clumsy #entire #i #i do #letters

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#generous #greatest #minds #natural #reform

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#anything #before #blake #books #died

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#chewing #chewing gum #civilized #country #gum

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. ↗

— Miguel Serrano

#books #death

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consolation #derive #life #people #troubles

I feel I've got 10 books in me. ↗

— Robert Hunter

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I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!' ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#books #cameras #couple #course #dive