#boo

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #driven #environment #hour #i

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#big #booming #covers #hate #love

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends. ↗

— Rachel Field

#book #book writing #brings #friends #old

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#could #learn #meeting #more #ourselves

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#came #directors #disappear #earth #economy

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better. ↗

— Danny Brassell

#motivation #reading-habits #motivational

I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#always #before #books #close #close friends