Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Zittrain

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Joni Mitchell

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Jonathan Tropper

It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.

Jonathan Tropper

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately, they [moviemakers] can't change your book. Your book remains on the shelf the way you wrote it. If they make a great movie of your book, then you have the equivalent of millions and millions of dollars of advertising for your book. If the movie's not that good, that doesn't mean the book's not good. It doesn't change what you've already written. It has the potential to reach more people.

Jonathan Swift

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

Jonathan Swift

Big-endians and small-endians.

Kevin Smith

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

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Kevin Spacey

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

Kevin Spacey

Whats my favourite book? It changes all the time.

Kevin Brooks

To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you need them. Best of all, this friend doesn’t have any secrets. They trust you to understand them. They take you to their innermost places. They share their sensations and emotions—and they let you experience them. Wherever you go and however you feel, they are always by your side. For an hour, a day, a week, or forever, their life becomes yours. Their story is your story. That’s the kind of book I’m trying to write.

Kevin Brockmeier

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

Kevin Brockmeier

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

Kenneth Clark

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Kellan Lutz

To be completely honest, I didn`t know Twilight was a book. I thank God for Ashley Greene [who plays Alice Cullen]. She`s like, `Did you read the books?` And I`m like...`What books?` But they were easy reads so it was fine. Emmett`s such an easy guy, so it was awesome to play him.

Kellan Lutz

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

Kellan Lutz

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

Kathy Reichs

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Kathy Reichs

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

Kurt Cobain

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

Kurt Cobain

All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned

Khaled Hosseini

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.

Khaled Hosseini

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Khaled Hosseini

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

Khaled Hosseini

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Khaled Hosseini

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Khaled Hosseini

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

Khaled Hosseini

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

Khaled Hosseini

It's hard when you make a film from a book that so many people love, because there's no way to get the entire story into a two-hour movie. But I was pleased with the reaction [for Kite Runner].

Khaled Hosseini

There are, however, those who have called the book [The Kite Runner] divisive and objected to some of the issues raised in the book, namely racism, discrimination, ethnic inequality etc.

Khaled Hosseini

Sad stories make good books

Khaled Hosseini

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.