Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Michelle Green

There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the end of kindergarten.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

Amy Hempel

I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

John Green

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

William Blum

Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire.

Francis Bacon

My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms.

Diane Davis

We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.

Sharon Olds

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Stanley Hauerwas

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Sebastian Coe

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.

Steven Heighton

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.

Charles M. Blow

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.