#boo

Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know. ↗

— Val Guest

#anybody #anything #bond #book #casino

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#books #enough #exploring #found #genesis

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deliberately #great #i #important #last

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#book #consider #copy #even #gave

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit. ↗

— David Guterson

#counter #runs #spirit #traditional

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. ↗

— David Guterson

#almost #basis #became #becoming #being

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#anderson #around #back #before #better

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #conversation #good #good book #listens

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #cringe #each #i #over

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. ↗

— David Hackworth

#alive #boots #drill #fists #i