Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Ginsberg

The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

Allen Ginsberg

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

Allen Ginsberg

All these books are published in Heaven.

Alison Weir

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Alison Weir

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

Alistair MacLeod

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

Alistair Maclean

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.

Alistair Cooke

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

Allan Bloom

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Allan Bloom

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Alison McGhee

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

Alison McGhee

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

Anthony Hopkins

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

Anthony Jeselnik

I was a weird kid because I liked to be alone, but I craved attention. It was important for me to be cool, but I couldn't keep my mouth shut. So I was either talking for the sake of talking, or I was curled up with a book somewhere hiding from everyone.

Ann Brashares

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Ann Brashares

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

Ann Coulter

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

Ann Coulter

I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.

Ann Coulter

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

Andy Cohen

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

Andy Andrews

I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.

Andy Andrews

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

Andy Andrews

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

Andy Andrews

I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.

Andrea Dworkin

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

Andrea Dworkin

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?

Kate Atkinson

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

Kaskade

People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.

James Gleick

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

Lauren Myracle

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

Lauren Willig

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.