#ok

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#book #fortunes #fun #great #life

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls. ↗

— Marcello Mastroianni

#big #each #look #name #pleasant

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#memories #old-age #reading #age

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#books #comes #complete #herself #i

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#first #his #looks #regards #spring

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines? ↗

— Walter Matthau

#book #did #finished #just #porcupines

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#beginning #choking #end #funny #got

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#books #getting #i #i am #into

You can never overlook a guy. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#never #overlook #you