Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lemire

I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist.

John Searles

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

E. B. White

I started talking about writing a book in 1992. I was writing a lot, and I got an idea for a story in the middle of the night. I sat down and started writing dialogue.

I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to get through it. So two months ago I started reading it and the young girl came back and said 'I got the book, I borrowed it from my teacher at school and I'm reading it.' The next thing I know she was done, so she was trying to tell the story as we were going along, but it was great.

Malorie Blackman

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

I see this as a way for local writers to celebrate and sell some of the books which we have produced. And with all these creative energies, it should be exciting.

Tess Gerritsen

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

I've been working with the record book for 14 years, and I can't recall this ever happening.

Oprah Winfrey

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

Joe Nedney

I've been a victim of just about every kind of circumstance there is, ... I could write a book on how to get cut in the NFL. It's never necessarily been because I haven't performed.

What that study finds will help tell us which way to go -- whether there are intriguing findings or the book ought to be closed on this topic.

Jason Epstein

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

We try to deal with small publishers who aren't well known. These are wonderful books, but you'll never find them at B. Dalton or Barnes & Noble.

When I stopped her she fought. I followed CBP procedure by the book,

Jilly Cooper

When I started writing, I thought the only way to write books that were set in the country was to go and look at the primroses on Putney Common.

When I started over here a year ago, it was very slow. I was doing four or five jobs a day, but now I'm doing eight a day and I'm booked three days out.

With lower oil prices and the services report coming in better than expected, optimism about exporters is spreading and helping to boost their shares.

Steve Spurrier

We got Pops a catch for the record book.

We expect some slowdown in the mortgage business as the refinance boom fades,

We expected to see Palm Beach, Broward and Dade schools coming to the museum. But we're getting school groups booked from as far away as Wisconsin. That gives a whole new meaning to Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.

We characterize this trend as the 'growing operational gap' between the level of IT staffing and the requirements their companies are placing on their infrastructure, particularly their networks. A solution for bridging this operational gap is for networking vendors to develop more intelligent products and features that will help boost an IT manager's operational efficiency.

Tim Johnson

We certainly will be vocal advocates for the power plant to be built in a South Dakota location, ... This would not just be a boost for this community, but the entire region.

We certainly noticed there had been some disappointments in the last week and I'm hoping that maybe Duff and I can provide a little boost in the momentum. Maybe we can roll on from here and get close to the medal count we want.

A pause by the Fed would give a temporary boost to stocks.

The last day of the year many years ago used to be the busiest say of the year, but that ended about 15 years ago. This holiday offers a three-day weekend and most institutions have closed their books by now.

The last chapter hasn't been written in this book.

The labels really want to be able to boost up the price for downloads on new releases. The question is, are we at a time now that we want to experiment with variable pricing?

The intent of Sarbanes-Oxley was to serve the shareholders, to ensure whatever books and records a public company keeps are transparent.

The joke was, how loud are the boos going to be if he didn't play today,

The message of the case is straightforward: Cooking the books is a recipe for disaster.

The merger will really boost bilateral trade opportunities for businesses on both sides of the Atlantic.

The metals boom continues and it's very hard to see where it will stop. Investors are so focused on the Chinese raw materials boom that share prices have become an afterthought.