Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. H. Abrams

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

M. H. Abrams

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

LZ Granderson

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

M. Night Shyamalan

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

Lorenz Hart

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. In each scenario, you can depend on the end where the lovers agree. Where's my Lothario? Where does he roam, with his dome Vaselined as can be?

Lorenz Hart

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Lord Chesterfield

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Lord Chesterfield

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Lord Chesterfield

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Malcolm Forbes

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

Malcolm Gladwell

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Malcolm Gladwell

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Malcolm Gladwell

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Malcolm Bradbury

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Mal Peet

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

Malcolm Cowley

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Malala Yousafzai

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Malala Yousafzai

We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In the same way when we were in Swat, we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns.

Malala Yousafzai

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

Malala Yousafzai

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

Malala Yousafzai

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Malala Yousafzai

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Malala Yousafzai

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

Magnus Carlsen

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Magnus Carlsen

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

Maj Sjowall

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

Maj Sjowall

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.

Maj Sjowall

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

Maira Kalman

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Maira Kalman

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Maira Kalman

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

Maisie Williams

They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next.