#boo

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#books #clearly #consider #eventually #i

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#doing #into #mind #own #purpose

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#calling #discovered #every #five #had

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #hasn #must #read #want

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #hasn #must #read #really

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. ↗

— David Morse

#i #lot #minds #people #stuck

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!' ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #bites #chill #chill out #dinner

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come