#boo

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

#company #conversation #discreetly #doze #fitter

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#back #between #book #course #drunkards

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#always #book #dream #feel #i

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#cover #covers #i #more #picked

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#better #book #experience #hope #keeps

To read too many books is harmful. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#harmful #many #read #too

The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#facebook #google #next #other #silicon

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject. ↗

— David Gest

#books #every #fascinated #him #just

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out. ↗

— David Gest

#booze #dealing #definitely #different #different way