#book

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

#books #bug #easy #fool #go

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. ↗

— Angela Carter

#bottle #container #idea #inside #like

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#bigger #blog #book #brainy #except

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#asked #books #capacity #dearest #editorial

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#books #daring #distribute #dreams #feet

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#acquisition #best #books #friends #good

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#books #cd-rom #come #help #information

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #discovered #hotels #i #left