Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Jessica Valenti

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

Jessica Simpson

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

Jessica Simpson

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Sophie [Kinsella]'s writing just captivated me. We bought this eight years ago, before it became an international success and was only one book. Now there's five. So, we were very fortunate to latch onto a character who has since become an international success both as a novel and hopefully now as a movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to get out of the mess that we're all in. It's basic message is to try and stop spending as much and try to release some of your assets to pay off your debt.

Jerry Bruckheimer

We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney will allow us make another one.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.

Jerry Coleman

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Jennifer Armstrong

Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.

Jean Fritz

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

Jean Craighead George

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Jean Craighead George

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

Jean Harlow

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

Jean Dubuffet

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

Graham Swift

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

I don't reread my books.

Gloria Allred

I have represented people in book deals.

Gloria Estefan

[To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Ellen DeGeneres

If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don't memorize numbers anymore.

Francis Spufford

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

Francis Spufford

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

Francis Quarles

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Ian MacKaye

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Ian Mcewan

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.