#boo

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight! ↗

— Li Na

#boot camp #camp #fat #got #i

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#essence #great #great ideas #hogwash #ideas

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#book #boy #composed #conceived #girl

But everything of value about me is in my books. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#books #everything #me #value

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #before #book #career #case

Making a book is such a big enterprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#book #enterprise #making #such

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#book writing #dirty #extraordinary #grief #publishing

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#benefit #boost #designed #earners #enormous

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#border #consistently #country #dealing #employers