#boo

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

#books #enormous #i #influence #instance

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. ↗

— Jack Vance

#anytime #books #frequently #i #i can

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. ↗

— Jack Vance

#excursions #fit #i #little #manage

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#commit #etiquette #go #inclines #into

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #art #artist #books #choose

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other. ↗

— Henry Cuellar

#beef #boost #border #border security #cannot

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#book #get #good #how #just

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#anybody #book #first #first kiss #great