Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Langston Hughes

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

Langston Hughes

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

John Keegan

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

John Keats

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

John Keats

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

John Keats

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.

Karen Black

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

Julio Cortazar

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Julio Cortazar

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

Juliet Marillier

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

Juliette Binoche

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

Julie Kagawa

Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.

Julie Kagawa

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

Joseph O'Neill

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Joseph O'Neill

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Justin Cronin

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

Justin Cronin

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

Justin Cronin

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

Justin Cronin

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

Justin Cronin

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.

Justin Cronin

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

Justin Cronin

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Justin Bieber

I luv the book first step to forever by justin bieber

Juice Newton

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Juicy J

I just keep my ear to the street. I haven't read any music books recently, because I figure I read everything I need to know back when I was 12, 13 years old. I know pretty much everything about record publishing, radio stations. The only thing that's changed is you gotta keep up with social media. It's free promotion.

Juicy J

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.