Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Let's face it: It was the disappearance of the century. People just stick a chapter in a book saying they know what happened, and the book sells.

Bille August

Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.

Maureen Corrigan

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

Many people wait until the last minute to get their tickets. But what you should do is book early and just make sure you monitor the prices.

Alison Weir

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

John Galbraith

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

Several of our trading books were on the wrong side of interest rates. It was a bunch of positions that didn't work out.

Jandy Nelson

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

Robert Parker

So it's - the book is the book, the movie is the movie, the money is the money, and - you know?

Sarah Susanka

So many homes today are the developers vision of what we should need in terms of square footage and rooms and adjacencies, ... 'The Not So Big House' is about how to introduce spirit and personality into our homes. The book is also about giving up the spaces we don't really use and end up making a house feel soulless.

So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directly on the Internet will mean for the book publishing industry have been vastly overstated.

Rita Dove

She took a group of us to see a living author, just a book signing. But that's really all it took to get me started on realizing my dream.

She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.

William Bastone

The overall majority of contentions he makes in the book are not borne out by contemporaneous police records or by interviews we conducted with police and court officials in Ohio and Michigan.

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.

Bruce Feiler

'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Debbie Macomber

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Chris Abani

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

Victoria Osteen

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

Victoria Hanley

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, quality can be a problem; plus, there are plenty of non-professional book review venues out there that will review for free.

Donald Trump

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

Naguib Mahfouz

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

Natalie Goldberg

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Neal Asher

I've been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with 'The Birthgrave' and 'The Storm Lord.' Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I've yet to read.

Natalie Portman

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Rick Perlstein

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.