Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Thompson Walker

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

Karen Thompson Walker

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

Karen Thompson Walker

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

Karen Walker

I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

Karen Traviss

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

Julia Stiles

When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.

Julian Assange

I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time.

Julian Assange

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

Julian Barnes

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?

Julian Barnes

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Julian Barnes

Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?

Julian Barnes

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Julian Barnes

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

Julian Barnes

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

Julian Barnes

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Julian Barnes

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

Ken Ham

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Ken Kesey

Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

Katie Price

There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It's an interesting part of my life, I hope it's in the book, I didn't check whether they put it in or not.

Kit Williams

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

Kim Harrison

It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)

Kevin O'Leary

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Kevin O'Leary

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

Kerry Greenwood

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

Ken Thompson

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

Ken Bruen

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Ken Bruen

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

Ken Follett

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Ken Follett

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Ken Follett

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

Ken Follett

The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Ken Follett

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

Keegan Allen

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!