#books

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. ↗

— Francois Mitterrand

#contact #his #loses #man #reality

I love comic books and always did as a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

#books #comic #comic books #did #i

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. ↗

— William Glasser

#ask #being #book #books #closed

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year. ↗

— Larry Elder

#books #just #just one #last #many

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. ↗

— Anatole France

#books #everybody #nobody #reads #those

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#characters #death #life #reading #death

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

I will try to write books until I drop dead. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dead #drop #i #try #until