#boo

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#allowed #another #book #character #crazy

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #given #i #mind #myself

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good. ↗

— Adam Levine

#boo #civilization #decay #good #honey

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight. ↗

— James Levine

#change #i #overnight #thought #world

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. ↗