Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Glasgow

As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

Ellen G. White

The Bible is God's great lesson book...

Ellen G. White

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

Ellen DeGeneres

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

Ellen DeGeneres

I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

Eric Schlosser

I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions.

Eric Schlosser

Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.

Eric Schlosser

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

Epictetus

Books are the training weights of the mind.

Emily Giffin

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

Emily Giffin

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

Emily Giffin

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

Emily Giffin

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Emily Dickinson

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

Emily Dickinson

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson

But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.

Emily Dickinson

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Emily Dickinson

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Emily Dickinson

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old...

Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson

There is no frigate like a book

Emily Dickinson

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.

Emeril Lagasse

Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

Emeril Lagasse

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

Elmore Leonard

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.

Elmore Leonard

I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.

Elmore Leonard

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story,

Elmore Leonard

To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Elmore Leonard

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

Elmore Leonard

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

Elmore Leonard

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

Elmore Leonard

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.