Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Acker

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Kathy Acker

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Kathryn Stockett

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book.

Kathryn Stockett

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

Kathryn Stockett

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

Kathryn Stockett

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

Kara Hayward

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

Kara Hayward

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

Kapil Dev

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

Kanye West

I am not a fan of books.

Kami Garcia

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

Kami Garcia

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

Kami Garcia

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

Kami Garcia

Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord.

Kami Garcia

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Kami Garcia

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

Kami Garcia

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

Kami Garcia

You need help, and that's what books are for.

Kami Garcia

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

Kami Garcia

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Kami Garcia

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Kanye West

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

Kanye West

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Kanye West

We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.

Jung Chang

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Jung Chang

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

June Squibb

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

Julien Green

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Julian Huxley

Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.

Julian Fellowes

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Judy Holliday

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Judy Woodruff

In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

Joyce Meyer

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!