Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Vizzini

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

Lisa Morton

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Marie Lu

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

Open in his hand was a solid gift of the Church - or, as he thought of it at this moment, a gift from God to the Church, for a distilled grammar of faith and practice. The Book of Common Prayer its treasure was great and always ready. He loved the taste of the phrases in his mouth.

Jared Diamond

People are responding so well to the book - it's really an upper.

John Searles

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

People actually camp out at the book to get seats at center court.

Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a way that people will find compelling.

O Yahya! take hold of the Book with strength, and We granted him wisdom while yet a child / And tenderness from Us and purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil), / And dutiful to his parents, and he was not insolent, disobedient.

Paul Davis

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Will Rogers

Our foreign dealings are an open book -- generally, a checkbook.

Our goal is to create that book that every Wednesday 52 is the one book you can't wait to get.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

Gerard Arpey

Our fourth-quarter results close the book on another very difficult year.

Joshua Foer

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Gloria Hunniford

Overall, I think writing the book was quite a cathartic experience,

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Jon Lewis

Our writing process is different. We storyboard it first. We're so visual, and we didn't want to lose that. We want our books to be very cinematic. We want to create awe-inspiring sequences.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It makes no difference to me whether I shoot you or you fall to your death.” “It does make a difference,” I said, my voice small but confident. “You and I share the same blood.” I lifted my hand precariously, showing him my birthmark. “I’m your descendant. If I sacrifice my blood, Patch will become human and you’ll die. It’s written in The Book of Enoch.

Becca Fitzpatrick

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

Barry Manilow

Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

Douglas Gresham

We never set out to make a 'Christian' movie. The book taps different veins in different people. If we overstressed what little symbolism there is, we would have thrown away the project.

We need all those wonderful books people have on their bookshelves and are willing to part with.

Bill Sienkiewicz

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

Bill Cosby

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

Bharati Mukherjee

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

C. S. Lewis

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

C. S. Lewis

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)

C. S. Lewis

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.