Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Chabon

I do think his books would reward reading by people who think they don't like fantasy.

I do the book work and he works with the kids on their swings.

Julia Glass

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

Don Piper

I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of all the book signings I've done, this is one of the ones I'll certainly remember.

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

I don't want to delude myself. No one lives forever. But I want him to have this book experience. To enjoy his legacy.

Robert Parker

I don't want to work hard on a book that is not going to be published in my lifetime. I want the money now! And, of course, I want to see the book published.

Will Shortz

I don't think these books will stay on the best-seller list forever, but I think this puzzle is here to stay like the crossword.

I don't think the magic will wear off. This is a real classic that has all the ingredients as a C.S. Lewis or Roald Dahl that sells as many books as they did 50 years ago,

Peter Davison

However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Nick Hornby

I could, I think, write a literary novel, but I have no desire to - even my bleakest book has some jokes in it, and I'd feel nervous writing a book with no jokes.

I canceled the book so I didn't lose anything.

Nick Hornby

I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.

Jennifer Aniston

I can still go out and do things. I can go to a book store. I can go out.

Avi

I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.

Salman Rushdie

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

Stan Lee

Comic books would probably be the last thing on the list of what we'll do at this point. But wherever a comic book is warranted, we're more than capable of doing them.

Humphrey Lyttelton

I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

Huey Long

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

Howard Shore

I look at the film without any music or sound. I try to grasp the story from the screenplay. I try to write to the novel or book if there is one. I try to create music that's honest and true to my heart for the story.

Honore de Balzac

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.

Honore de Balzac

Reading brings us unknown friends

Honore de Balzac

Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

Honore de Balzac

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Honore de Balzac

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

Ibrahim Babangida

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ibrahim Babangida

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Hassan Nasrallah

For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth.

Harvey Pekar

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Harvey Pekar

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Harvey Pekar

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.