Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

It's - I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

Louis Sachar

What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.

Lord Byron

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Lord Acton

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Cleese

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

John Bright

What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

M. Russell Ballard

In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable time teaching and instructing and training His councils and council leaders, and then He sent them forth to share what they had learned with others.

Lurlene McDaniel

I have always been amazed guys read these books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

Lurlene McDaniel

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

Lurlene McDaniel

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

Lurlene McDaniel

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

Lurlene McDaniel

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

Lurlene McDaniel

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Lurlene McDaniel

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

Luther Burbank

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

Luis von Ahn

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

Louise Brown

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Louise Brown

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

Louise Brown

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Louise Brown

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

John Bevere

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

John Boyne

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

John Boyne

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

You could write a book or create a mini-series on the making of Taylor vs. Wright. I'll always remember (Mike) Tyson vs. (Lennox) Lewis as the most difficult negotiation we've had at HBO. But this one was like a roller coaster.

Candace Bushnell

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.

Maurice Sendak

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

Maurice Sendak

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

Maurice Sendak

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Mattie Stepanek

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

Matthew Arnold

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.