#boo

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#boom #bust #dot-com #end #i

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#i #infirmity #knows #last #minds

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. ↗

— Ken Follett

#called #candidate #cia #described #program

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation. ↗

— Ken Follett

#change #character #does #even #hero

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#active #books #chance #could #country

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal. ↗

— Brad Thor

#along #be different #being #being different #books

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #farther #gone #got #influence

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#like #make #mashed #mashed potatoes #out