#boo

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet. ↗

— Steve Rasnic Tem

#carpentry #childhood #dancing #dreams #fantasy

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. ↗

— William Feather

#finishing #friend #good #good book #good friend

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#i #movie #properly #transitions #whatever

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#adapting #anybody #books #enjoy #i

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#dollar #free #free trade #i #i think

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#boom #bust #dot-com #end #i

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#i #memoir #novelist #only #well

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#i #infirmity #knows #last #minds

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. ↗

— Ken Follett

#called #candidate #cia #described #program