Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jackson

I just told Ron he shouldn't feel bad. They boo me, and I play here. I don't think it bothered him. If they'll boo me, they'll boo anybody.

Janet Fitch

I just wanted to live in books and in movies.

I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.

I really don't know, and I really wish I did. I'm one of those people who reads the last page of a book first, so this is really killing me.

Tyler Florence

I really want people to walk away from the book with the idea that they can become kind of an intuitive cook. Instead of relying on the mathematics of, you know, 2/3 of a cup of this and a cup of this, to really be able to feel the recipe.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

I recommend they use both shoulder straps, ... I also recommend that parents get a second set of books -- one for home and one for school, so they're not carrying them back and forth.

Dean Koontz

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfiction.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

Chuck Hogan

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

I look at it like the cover on a book, ... We'd like to see something really great go there, because of its visibility.

Darren Shan

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

I live in north Kenner and everything in the house flooded, ... All her books flooded, school shoes flooded, everything. Should we just show up for the first day of school?

Robert Kirkman

I know it's funny to hear someone talking about a new Image book making it past issue forty but we're really shooting for that here.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Marco Rubio

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

I know a lot of coaches in the past will split between Boo and Deep South (Classic in Raleigh-Durham); it makes it a lot harder to try to do that. Some will still try to do that, but more than likely people will send a coach to each event and not try to double it.

Jean Craighead George

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

William Blum

I hope it helps my book sales. I'm swamped with media interviews.

Robertson Davies

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

I heard a loud boom sound, and after I heard the sound, I closed my eyes and I prayed.

John Turner

I heard this pop, pop, pop! It sounded like it was circling almost, so I ran outside to see what it was. (There was a) big boom and the pieces started falling.

I heard the splash; I thought it was a fish. I kind of stepped away, and then I heard all the booing. I thought they were booing me for stepping away from the ball. I mean the shock, the thing goes through your body, and you are like, 'wow, this is really a tough crowd.' Then you look up and you see some clown having an identity crisis swimming around.

James Vincent McMorrow

I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.

Jojo Moyes

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

I haven't really ever heard of Book TV until today. I think it's an interesting concept and a good idea to work with a younger crowd.

I haven't read the Book of Job yet, but I'm about to.

I haven't read one book aboutA book or memorized one plot,Or found a mind I did not doubt,I learned one date. And then forgot.And one by one the solid scholarsGet the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot, Or found a mind I did not doubt, I learned one date. And then forgot. And one by one the solid scholars Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

Victoria Beckham

I haven't read a book in my life,