Famous Quotes & Sayings

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Greg Graffin

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

Gracie Allen

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

Grace Slick

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

Gerry Spence

I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

Gwendoline Christie

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

Sydney Smith

I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so

Alice McDermott

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

I never find books that interest me, something that doesn't take a long time to get into.

Joel Osteen

I never dreamed my book was going to do what it's done, ... Hopefully I'll never have to take a salary from the church again. We plan to be good givers.

In a strange way it made us stronger, they had to pull themselves up by the boot straps and when Matt returned we were that much better.

In an environment where the flattening of e-commerce sales is being widely reported, especially in the book industry, our sales continue to grow, which is a clear indication that e-commerce is an important component of the bookselling retail marketplace,

Alex Rodriguez

I'm not sure. I get confused. I have a very closed bunch of friends and family that I hear from. My book is still in the middle. Everybody will know who I am when I'm 40 years old. The contract is something I'm very proud of.

Christopher Paolini

I'm not the fastest of writers, but I can chew through a book if I have the time to do it,

Tommy Haas

I'm happy that I won in two sets. It's a psychological boost to know that you could do it in straight sets.

John Corey Whaley

I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.

Sam Smith

I'm calling it the book review of the decade.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps.

Stephanie Laurens

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

Jose Gonzalez

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Priscilla Presley

I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole new generation of people who were discovering Elvis and his music. There are many books and stories that have been written about him, but there are still so many questions that needed to be answered, so we figured it was time to tell our story. We are sharing some very intimate and personal things, but I really wanted to show the definitive Elvis, warts and all.

Jon Favreau

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.

Toni Morrison

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

Nora Ephron

If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters

Ozzie Guillen

If people think I'm here to please the fans and media, they're wrong, ... I don't care how much they boo me. I could care less. It's my job. I'm not afraid.

Kyra Sedgwick

I optioned a book and we got the script written, and he wants to direct it. It's a very dark movie so we'll see if it gets made.

Jacqueline Wilson

I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose counts towards their tally for rewards. It's all about reading for pleasure.

Fran Lebowitz

I often used to say, the more parties there were for a book, the worse the book was.

Stephen Coonts

I had already done a two-chapter subplot on the second Cuban revolution in the book 'Under Siege' in 1990,

If you don't have a ticket already, forget about it. The airplanes are booked solid between now and when the hurricane is supposed to hit. People are wasting time here that they could be using driving away.