Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Keene

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

Brian K. Vaughan

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

Brian K. Vaughan

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Brian Jacques

My values are not based on violence. My values are based on courage, which you see time and time again in my books. A warrior isn't somebody like Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. A warrior can be any age. A warrior is a person people look up to.

Brian Jacques

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Brian Andreas

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

Brad Meltzer

Sharing education, sharing a book…that’s what changes the world.

Brad Meltzer

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.

Jane Hamilton

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jane Haddam

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Jane Hirshfield

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

Jane Hirshfield

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Jane Gardam

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

Jane Goldman

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

Jane Goodall

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

Jane Goodall

The Soul of Money is an inspired and utterly fascinating book. It will change the way you think about money. ... It is a book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place.

Jane Fonda

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

Jan Karon

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

Jan Karon

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

Jan Karon

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

Jan Karon

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

Jan Karon

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Jan Karon

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

Jamie Hewlett

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

Jamie Campbell Bower

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

Jamie Farr

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Jamie Dimon

I always tell people, "There's a book on everyone." I get some of that book before I do anything. If I want to deeply understand someone's reputation, I'll talk to their friends, their former bosses, their peers, and I'll learn a lot about them. I want them to be trusted. I want them to be respected. I want them to give a s - -. Then there are the intangibles: physical and emotional stamina, the ability to confront issues. I can ask all I want about those things, but I also have to see a lot of it.

James Tate

William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book.

James Tate

In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.

Kerry Greenwood

I have to write three books a year to make a reasonable living out of writing - unless, of course, she gets a major American film deal. Phryne has been optioned since the very first book, but to make a historical TV movie, it costs $30,000 a day extra for the historical detail to be correct, so most people aren't doing it.

Kitty Kelley

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

James E. Faust

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.