#boo

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world. ↗

— Delia Smith

#books #cookery #i #latest #magazines

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black #booker #business #business owners #entrepreneurship

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#around #bamboo #doing #gravel #i

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #brethren #correct #earth #get

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#book #mormon #none #our #religion

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#anything #back #became #because #big

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook. ↗

— Hope Solo

#bad #confirmed #facebook #friend #friends

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. ↗

— George Stephen

#books #effect #first #sale #two