#book

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#celebrity #how #i #read #well-adjusted

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#big thing #books #newspapers #out #reading

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#book #closed #eyes #focused #gandhi

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#burners #conceal #concealing #ever #evidence

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#book #expected #i #other #primarily

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. ↗

— Mary Grandpre

#away #book #essence #get #giving