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.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Arthur Wing Pinero

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Deepak Chopra

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

A. N. Wilson

I had lost faith in biography.

Conrad Veidt

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

H. G. Wells

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

George Bernard Shaw

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Mick Jagger

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Dan Stevens

I don't know much about my biological background.

Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Coco Lee

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

J. I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Jodie Foster

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Piper Perabo

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.