#boo

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#books #daring #distribute #dreams #feet

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#acquisition #best #books #friends #good

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#books #cd-rom #come #help #information

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #discovered #hotels #i #left

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#complex #denser #each #first #got

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#become #better #black #books #clone

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right. ↗

— Julia Child

#anything #books #doing #enough #exactly

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second. ↗

— Lee Child

#every #every second #facts #gets #i