#boo

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#ever #here #hour #india #itself

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#bible #book #creator #creature #ending

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book. ↗

— Clive Owen

#based #because #book #different #different thing

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#discovering #ending #impossible #joy #makes

I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible. ↗

— James Paget

#bible #book #both #brutality #compare

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#else #forest #go #had #head

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#book #children #effect #engaged #every