Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colson Whitehead

In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.

Colm Toibin

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

Colm Toibin

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Colm Toibin

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Colum McCann

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Colum McCann

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Colum McCann

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

Clifford Geertz

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Clifford Geertz

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Dave Attell

If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book.

David Simon

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

David Platt

We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

David Liss

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

David Lynch

But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

David Halberstam

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

David Hasselhoff

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.

David Carradine

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.

Dan Brown

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

Dan Brown

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Curt Weldon

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

Curtis Hanson

The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

Corey Stoll

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

Corin Nemec

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

Corey Taylor

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Confucius

Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

Confucius

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Daniel Woodrell

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

Daniel Woodrell

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Daniel Suarez

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Daniel Tammet

I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.

Daniel Webster

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

Daniel Webster

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Daniel Webster

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.