#books

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. ↗

— Jonathan D. Spence

#experience #hearsay #knowledge #observation #experience

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#around #being #books #enough #everything

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#any #baseball #book #books #changed

I would always want printed books. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#books #i #printed #want #would

I don't think about who the audience is for my books. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#audience #books #i #think #who

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

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

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#alone #been #bible #books #hamlet