#book

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #least #narrative #point #priority

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer. ↗

— Mike Myers

#because #beer #books #drinking #eating

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him. ↗

— Mike Myers

#anybody #book #care #eight #ended

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#essence #great #great ideas #hogwash #ideas

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#book #boy #composed #conceived #girl

But everything of value about me is in my books. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#books #everything #me #value

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #before #book #career #case

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#balancing #base #books #building #business

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#comfortably #derivative #early #early work #first

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books. ↗

— Marc Newson

#buy #even #i #magazines #never