Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's more than just a book club. It's a way for me to invest in our people.

It just boosts my confidence to know I can do what I have to do to go out there and help my team out.

It's a lot different. It gives you an extra boost to go out there and win the game for the crowd.

Viggo Mortensen

It's also just weird getting that much fan mail from strangers. I may just have to say that if I'm doing a book signing or you catch me on the street, then fine. But otherwise I cannot do it anymore. It takes hours everyday and it takes too much time away from other things I must do.

It's a love song set, three-discs and forty songs. I'm going to buy this, a bottle of wine and a razor blade. - From the book by Kevin Hunter, 'Jagger's Revolution'

It looks great and very nice. We already have people booked through May.

Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

Lois Lowry

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

Lois Lowry

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Lois Lowry

You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

Lois Lowry

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Lois Lowry

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

Lois Lowry

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

Lois Lowry

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.

Lois Lowry

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Lois Lowry

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

Lois Lowry

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Lloyd Alexander

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Lloyd Alexander

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

Manuel Puig

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Manuel Puig

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Mao Zedong

Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

Mao Zedong

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

Madison Smartt Bell

Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

Madison Smartt Bell

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Madeleine L'Engle

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Madeleine L'Engle

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

Madeleine L'Engle

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Madeleine L'Engle

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Madeleine L'Engle

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Madeleine L'Engle

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

Madeleine L'Engle

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.