Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

Carl Jung

It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.

Carl Jung

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands.

Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

Carl Jung

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...

Calvin Trillin

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

Calvin Trillin

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

Calvin Trillin

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Calvin Trillin

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

Calvin Trillin

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

Calvin Trillin

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

Michael Francis

Would I expect anything different from the Bush administration? No. They will cook the books for whatever they want.

Joanne Harris

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Writing a book has provided the single greatest return on investment than any other business decision I have ever made in the history of the company.

We're seeing a cultural shift, ... People don't feel that 'used' is a dirty word anymore. Over 78% of buyers on Abebooks.com say they'd be thrilled to receive a used book as a gift.

We've tried to structure it so people spend the night, ... I heard that every room in Cache Valley is booked ... We've blacked out the entire valley for tonight.

Bill Mumy

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

Bill Mumy

I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

Whitley Strieber

To make a long story short: the way I work out my fears is in the fiction. The results of that work go into the books of fact.

To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves

Jane Lindskold

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

Yeah, that's good. I don't want to go down in the history books for that. I want to be the first guy to lose 19 and come back and win 19.

Philip Green

You know the Priory? I've got a permanent room booked there in case I ever think about it.

Candace Bushnell

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

When I first envisioned this book back in 2002, I had no idea it would become the massive project it has become. It has been so long since local residents had the chance to participate by sending in family histories.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

Helen Fielding

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Hansie Cronje

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again,

Hans Jonas

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Greg Graffin

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.