Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Whitefield

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

George Will

When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

George Saintsbury

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

George Saintsbury

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

George Sand

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

George Saunders

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.

George Saunders

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

George Saunders

If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.

Jenji Kohan

We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books and articles. We are constantly emailing articles around the writers' room. We have dipped ourselves in prison culture and lore and media, and the experience and the people. We really want to be as informed as possible.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

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.

Jeffery Deaver

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Jeffery Deaver

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Jeffery Deaver

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

Jeffery Deaver

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Jeffery Deaver

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

Jeffery Deaver

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

Jeffery Deaver

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Jeffrey Archer

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

Jeffrey Archer

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Jeff Olson

The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

Jeff Olson

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

Jeff Probst

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

Jim Harrison

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Jim Harrison

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

Jerry Rice

I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big, so I knew I needed something to fall back on. That's the message I want to send to those kids when I talk to them in person and let them know the most important thing is getting your education.

Eoin Colfer

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

Eoin Colfer

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.

Eoin Colfer

I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

Emily Watson

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.