#boo

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#book #comfortable #days #did #different

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ↗

— Jacques Plante

#boo #goes #how #job #light

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#been #books #highly #i #look

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#book #college #common #common sense #even

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. ↗

— John Pople

#ahead #algebra #book #class #developed

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big. ↗

— Richard Powers

#big #books #components #dialogues #fascination

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alight #almost #become #books #city

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#i #many #read #scripts #should