#books

He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable. ↗

— George Orwell

#age

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#always #another #book #books #enjoyed

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#friendship #age

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#books #disheartening #distributed #enough #find

According to law of attraction to rid ourselves of disease we should visualize a healthy and healed self. Think thoughts of well being, Speak words of well being and let doctors do their job. ↗

— Arun Saraf

#law-of-attraction-books #subconscious-mind #money

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#bad #bad taste #bathtub #books #emblem

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#arrest #been #black #books #france

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#began #books #children #dance #first

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely. ↗

— John Hume

#answer #books #history #i #i think