Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Camilo Jose Cela

I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one. [Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

Campbell Scott

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

Camille Paglia

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Paglia

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

Camille Paglia

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

Caity Lotz

The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

Cal Thomas

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

Caitlin Moran

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

Caitlin Moran

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Caitlin Moran

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

Caitlin Moran

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Caitlin Moran

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

C. S. Forester

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

C. S. Forester

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Cathleen Schine

Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

Cathleen Schine

Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read.

Cathleen Schine

I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than a desk and better designed for naps. It is the center of all good things. And day or night, everyone knows where to find me.

Catherynne M. Valente

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

Catherynne M. Valente

I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.

Catherynne M. Valente

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

Catherynne M. Valente

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

Catherynne M. Valente

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

Catherynne M. Valente

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

Caspar Weinberger

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Casey Affleck

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

Casey Affleck

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

Casey Affleck

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.