Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin McKinley

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of white-water rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Robert Sean Leonard

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.

Robert Scheer

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Robert Purvis

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

Robert Littell

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Robert M. Hutchins

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Robert M. Gates

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any... on how you do that in public institutions.

Satya Nadella

Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

Sasha Alexander

One of the things that did intrigue me about when I read the pilot - because I had not read the books before doing the show - was the mystery aspect of it. I didn't feel that it was just a crime-based story. It really does have that mystery element, and it felt like a throwback to other shows in the past that had a bit more of that. There was something iconic about it. The fact that it's set in Boston gave it a feeling that was different to me. So, I am definitely more of a fan of mysteries than I am of a circular crime-based genre.

Satish Kumar

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Sarah Kay

I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

Sara Nelson

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

Sara Sheridan

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Sara Sheridan

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Sara Sheridan

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Sara Sheridan

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

Sara Sheridan

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

Sara Paretsky

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

Sara Paretsky

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Sara Paretsky

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Sara Paretsky

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

Sara Paretsky

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

Sara Gruen

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

Sara Gruen

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Sara Shepard

I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to dive back into each character.

Sara Shepard

I love books about dysfunctional families.

Sandra Boynton

Books can take you places.

Samuel West

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow if I was only ever allowed one book to keep, and who never bores me.

Samuel West

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.