#books

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#better #books #conversation #man #mere

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#character #each #feed #find #going

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#books #comic #comic books #easy #effects

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

#brief #i #make #never #other

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#also #because #books #boy #good

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#books #i #like #lot #reading

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#books #flesh #i #read #sad

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#i #notebooks #writing #years