#boo

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.' ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#better #book #cannot #could #economists

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#fold #more #nothing #old #ours

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#book #cause #having #high #high school

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#coldness #desperate #i #me #people

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! ↗

— Erin Duffy

#book #fiction #fun #good #historical

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#fairy #fairy tales #i #left #picture