#book

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#arts #book #first #first thing #i

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look. ↗

— Delta Burke

#books #drama #drama school #fabulous #go

I often reread books I have written. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #often #reread #written

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Ever since Roberta Wohlstetter’s pathbreaking study of why the United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor 50 years ago, both academics and members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have made significant progress in understanding intelligence failures. About how to correct these errors and do better we know much less, however, and it is to this subject that this volume makes a major contribution. --Foreword to Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action ↗

— Robert Jervis

#intelligence-analysis #intelligence-books #intelligence

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#fact #heart #i #like

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first

I've always been a big fan of books. ↗

— Amber Benson

#been #big #big fan #books #fan

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#books #children #desire #failure #fear