#books

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

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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

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#editors #guess #i #king #like

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#books #boundaries #define #efforts #ever

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#amount #apparent #because #books #bosnia

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. ↗

— John Sayles

#book #books #came #certainly #down

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#christ #endless #furnished #gratitude #himself

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #books #buy #could #good