#boo

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#book #come #day #fantasize #feel

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#boom #box #cds #created #doing

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. ↗

— David Friedman

#i #independent #me #music #my own

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #children #earth #go #i

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#book #breaking #classical #i #lots

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#intelligent-conversation #taboo #death

If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together. ↗

— Pat Garrett

#booking #club #come #festival #few

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only