#boo

I just write the books that I think I would want to read. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i think #just #read #think

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.' ↗

— Julia Stiles

#begin #boo #comes #delay #first

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! ↗

— R. L. Stine

#books #comic #comic books #every #get

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#back #books #feelings #i #i write

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #asia #bomb #book #declared

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties. ↗

— Ina Garten

#cookbooks #i #inspiration #must #my own

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before. ↗

— Peter Straub

#blue #book #comes #died #identity

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on. ↗

— Stephen Root

#book #comic #comic book #fan #i

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#book #christianity #clergyman #converted #did