Famous Quotes & Sayings

I recommend they use both shoulder straps, ... I also recommend that parents get a second set of books -- one for home and one for school, so they're not carrying them back and forth.

Dean Koontz

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfiction.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

Chuck Hogan

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

I look at it like the cover on a book, ... We'd like to see something really great go there, because of its visibility.

Darren Shan

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

I live in north Kenner and everything in the house flooded, ... All her books flooded, school shoes flooded, everything. Should we just show up for the first day of school?

Robert Kirkman

I know it's funny to hear someone talking about a new Image book making it past issue forty but we're really shooting for that here.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Marco Rubio

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Jean Craighead George

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

William Blum

I hope it helps my book sales. I'm swamped with media interviews.

Robertson Davies

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

James Vincent McMorrow

I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.

Jojo Moyes

I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.

I haven't really ever heard of Book TV until today. I think it's an interesting concept and a good idea to work with a younger crowd.

I haven't read the Book of Job yet, but I'm about to.

I haven't read one book aboutA book or memorized one plot,Or found a mind I did not doubt,I learned one date. And then forgot.And one by one the solid scholarsGet the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot, Or found a mind I did not doubt, I learned one date. And then forgot. And one by one the solid scholars Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

Victoria Beckham

I haven't read a book in my life,

I haven't found that term in a medical book yet. It's human tissue. It's his. No kidding.

Jeffery Deaver

I have to say that there are certain books that exist to tell a particular story and then there are books that exist in the context of character.

I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

High-tech issues are surrounded by persistent fears over possible profit warnings as we get closer to the mid-year book closing in September.

Adam Baldwin

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.

Stan Lee

Howard the Duck ... should have been good, but every mistake in the book was made with that movie, and it didn't work. I didn't want to butt-in...

He's rejected our offer. We respect what he's done on the field, but now we're going to close the book and go forward.

Stephen King

I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they were in the hands of a true crazy person. When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Mary Roach

I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

Ingmar Bergman

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.