#books

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#accents #apartment #big #books #had

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#books #fellow #finds #his #i

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

#another #books #boring #concluded #drudgery

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#big budget #books #budget #comic #comic books

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. ↗

— David Remnick

#another #book #books #had #half

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#always #angry #band #books #emotionally

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

#books #constant #counsellors #friends #most

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ↗

— Walt Disney

#island #more #pirate #than #treasure

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#economists #even #fish #get #grocery

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#common #good #had #happened #one thing