Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Levertov

I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

Deidre Hall

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

Deborah Harkness

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

Deb Caletti

You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.

Deb Caletti

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

Deb Caletti

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Deb Caletti

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Deb Caletti

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

Deb Caletti

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

Deb Caletti

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Deb Caletti

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Dick Bruna

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Dick Cavett

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

Dick Cavett

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

Dick Cavett

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo.

Diana Gabaldon

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

Diana Gabaldon

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Diana Gabaldon

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

Diana Gabaldon

You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

Diana Gabaldon

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Diana Gabaldon

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Dennis Hopper

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

Dennis Lehane

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

Dennis Miller

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

Denise Mina

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Edward Fitzgerald

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Edward G. Robinson

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Edward Gibbon

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Edward Gibbon

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

Edward Gibbon

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

Eden Phillpotts

As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.