#boo

My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#biggest #books #cooking #geared #loss

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it. ↗

— Al Franken

#advantages #being #book #down #easier

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#back door #booked #bumped #crying #door

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#lambs #really #silence #smart

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #books #down #external #fun

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#deserts #even #get #hands #just

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#different #home #i #kids #library

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #characters #every #feeling #knows

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #approaches #boone #bringing #commended