Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Nicholson

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

William McKinley

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

William J. Clinton

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

William James

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

William Galston

The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William G. Boykin

Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides the evidence in his book Secret Weapon. Every American needs to understand how our financial markets have been manipulated by people who want to destroy the nation and how they can do even greater damage in the future. This book is a critical read for everyone.

William Finnegan

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.

William Gaddis

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

William Gilbert

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

William Gibson

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

William Gibson

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

Will Estes

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of

Will Eisner

[Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

Will Ferrell

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Will Durant

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

Whitley Strieber

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed - if that one writer had not, a hundred times or a thousand, made the choice to write. You're going to be that one writer one day for somebody you may never meet. Nobody can write that book you're going to write - that book that will light up and change up a life - but you.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

Sarah Palin

Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

Sarah Palin

If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'

Sara Zarr

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

Sarah Addison Allen

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

Sarah Addison Allen

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Sarah Addison Allen

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

Sarah Addison Allen

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Sarah Addison Allen

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Saoirse Ronan

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well.

Saoirse Ronan

I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.

Samuel Pepys

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

Samuel Rogers

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Samuel Smiles

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

William Ellery Channing

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.