Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude

Gretchen Wilson

It's not my life story but stories from my life. And also stories from a lot of women that I grew up around and that I felt were very pivotal in my life and kind of gave me the courage and the strength to keep going. It's kind of going to be a feel-good book for women.

It's not like this heat is going to last for one or two months. This is not going down in the books as a hot summer.

For international oil companies, Libya is interesting because it's one of the only new frontiers and they can book reserves.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

Jess Walter

Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.

Jojo Moyes

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Davy Rothbart

I'm excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because I've always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid, ... It's a big thrill to see the book on the shelf and share these stories.

I'm finishing a book about the making of the movie and I have a comedy I'm dying to do that would be perfect for Jim Carey, ... And I'm getting a cut of the film ready for The Lifetime Channel, for showing next March.

I'm proud of the book in a lot of ways. I think it reads well ... We encouraged our writers to write in their own voices.

Sammy Sosa

I'm real happy my name is in the record book, but it means nothing because we lost.

I keep painting on newspapers, maps, and books spending days in bookstores to look for old paintings and young painters.

Jeff Kinney

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad.

I learned every good consultant must have a book.

I hope to finish the book before I'm 90. It keeps you alive. The secret of being a translator is not to be in a hurry. Sometimes it takes hours to find a single word.

Charles Jenkins

I hope that this book will help the abduction issue in a small way, anyway.

Charles Jenkins

I hope that this book will help the abduction issue in a small way,

Joel Miller

I hope that the system will not crash and that we won't be able to print our poll books, or we won't be able to run a voter check when someone shows up and wasn't put on a poll book when they should have been.

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

Steven Cojocaru

I have something in my book about the red carpet divas and the red carpet demons. Helen Hunt is not a giver on the red carpet. She's a little cranky.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a fan. My grandchildren are fans. I wish I'd written the books.

Mallory Ortberg

I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

Mary Pope Osborne

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Charles Lamb

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

Adrian McKinty

I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.

Jonathan Coe

I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction.

Benicio Toro

I'm sure when the book came out a lot of people called it a masterpiece and a lot of people called it garbage, ... I hope some people can respect it for what it is.

James Dickey

I'm sure they were disappointed. As you can imagine, the players listened intently. But they all wished him the best, told him they loved him. He told them he loved them, to stay on the books and play hard and do their best.

Jeffery Deaver

In general, I think, less is more and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

Rene Preval

That is also part of security -- disarming the children and putting a book in their hands.