Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Antopol

With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it

Moliere

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Moliere

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

Moliere

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

Mohsin Hamid

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

Mohsin Hamid

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Mohsin Hamid

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Mohsin Hamid

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

Milo Ventimiglia

I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced.

Milton Friedman

There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Milton Friedman

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

Milton Friedman

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

Mike Birbiglia

Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.

Nate Silver

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Nathan Fillion

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

Nathan Fillion

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

Nathan Fillion

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

Nathan Fillion

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

Nat Wolff

'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

Natalie Clifford Barney

A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book.

Natalie Clifford Barney

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Natalie Clifford Barney

My only books were women's looks.

Nancy Mitford

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Ken Baumann

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Kelly Wearstler

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Ken Auletta

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Keith Carradine

Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years.

Keira Knightley

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

Keira Knightley

It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

Kathy Mattea

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.