Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Myracle

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

Lauren Willig

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

Katharine Kerr

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

Ken Follett

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.

When we raise tuition five or three dollars a credit or when books go up, for many of these students this is the difference between their being able to go to school and not go to school.

When you're out for three or four years, you've got book knowledge and the market doesn't want that,

Gwen Davis

When you write the truth, a lot of people get mad ... But, hey, a good book is a good book.

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Nancy Gibbs

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

Nancy Werlin

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

Natalie Babbitt

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

Nancy Kress

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Gail Carriger

Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

Nikki Sixx

What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'

Nikki Sixx

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

Ludwig Bemelmans

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Caitlin Kittredge

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

Caitlin Kittredge

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

Elisabeth Shue

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Philip Yancey

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

Colm Toibin

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

Cassandra Clare

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

Drew Barrymore

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

Don Winslow

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

Dries van Noten

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

We are constantly checking our circulation system database which tells us who the books are issued to and whether they were returned late or damaged.

Brooks Robinson

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

Tony Stewart

Yeah, but he's around it every week. It's hard when you're not around that, to go every week to get caught up. Every year that goes by, it just seems like that's a part of my career that is kind of like a chapter in a book that seems it's closed and we've moved on to another chapter.

James Thurber

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.