Famous Quotes & Sayings

If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.

Joe McCarthy

If I have a laptop open in a cafe, I'm less approachable than if I had a book or a newspaper open. I'm not trying to stop that practice. I'm just trying to counterbalance it.

Bruce Feiler

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

Ashley Smith

I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.

Patti Smith

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

Ezra Taft Benson

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

Ezra Taft Benson

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

Iris Chang

I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.

I couldn't be more proud. We closed the book on the Cinderella story. We tried our best. We put ourselves in position to win. We got down. We came back. It was a tremendous effort.

I could probably write a book about that.

Craig Anderson

I could write a book about it. I went through a lot of adversity, but I came back determined to get my job back and make a difference. I know I can be here, and make a difference every night.

I don't think the public understands all the ramifications of those four months last year. It's tantamount to a criminal profiting from a book or movie deal about their crimes.

Alexander Downer

I don't think there's any need to be concerned about it, ... I think this is just another paragraph in a very long book of fiery rhetoric, that we've heard for many years.

Dave Eggers

I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area.

Michael Chabon

I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.

I do the book work and he works with the kids on their swings.

Julia Glass

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

Don Piper

I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of all the book signings I've done, this is one of the ones I'll certainly remember.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

I don't want to delude myself. No one lives forever. But I want him to have this book experience. To enjoy his legacy.

Robert Parker

I don't want to work hard on a book that is not going to be published in my lifetime. I want the money now! And, of course, I want to see the book published.

Will Shortz

I don't think these books will stay on the best-seller list forever, but I think this puzzle is here to stay like the crossword.

I don't think the magic will wear off. This is a real classic that has all the ingredients as a C.S. Lewis or Roald Dahl that sells as many books as they did 50 years ago,

Peter Davison

However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Nick Hornby

I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.

Erica Jong

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

Erica Jong

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Erica Jong

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Erica Jong

Home is where your books are.

Erica Jong

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Erica Jong

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Erica Jong

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.