Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

We were able to take their elite scorer out of the game and it was a boost for us.

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

Mark Billingham

We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

Jane Smiley

Writing this book was incredibly fun because I soaked in the bathtub, laid around eating chocolate in bed, cooked dinner for my family and read novels the whole time.

Writing the book was the hard part. Getting it published and printed through Lulu was a breeze.

Anthony Swofford

Writing the book helped exorcise all of that, ... Many years later, I'm happy that I didn't have that chance for a sniper kill.

Aberjhani

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Aaron Levie

Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

A. J. Jacobs

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

A. J. P. Taylor

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

A. J. Jacobs

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

A. J. Jacobs

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

A. N. Wilson

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

A. N. Wilson

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

A. N. Wilson

I don't write books inadvertently.

A. J. McLean

I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

A. Scott Berg

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

A. Scott Berg

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

A. Whitney Brown

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

A. S. Byatt

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

A. S. Byatt

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

A. S. Byatt

There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.

A. S. Byatt

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Rick Allen

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

Rachel Boston

I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.

Raymond E. Feist

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.

Sarah MacLean

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love.

Sarah Addison Allen

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

Sarah Shahi

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

Siri Hustvedt

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.