Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Emerson

My mother had all these scrap books she kept and the reviews, I was also fortunate to have a list of every gig I've ever played in my life.

Diane Setterfield

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

Pat Conroy

My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.

Nicolas Cage

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

Rich Sommer

I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies.

Claire Tomalin

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Jerry Spinelli

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

Sid Bernstein

I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.

Mike Grant

I was happy -- we lined up right, and we didn't give them too many big plays. First game, you're just happy to get it in the books and go to the cabin.

I was going through my scrap book and I couldn't do nothing but to cry because I had all kinds of pictures of her in there.

Jessye Norman

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.

Julie Walters

I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that!

Paul Gray

It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.

Michael Chabon

It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge you can say this book is all mine, it's my world. Whether giving over some of that has any monetary value or not, we'll see.

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

Rick Riordan

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Gloria Estefan

I think every child, every person at some point in their life feels like they don't fit in, ... I wanted to plant some seeds with this book in young children today to realize how important it is to have your identity and to be who you are.

I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book my friends and others will enjoy reading.

Carl Hiaasen

I think once they get into it and read it, they'll plug right in to it, ... It's not fiction. It's the real thing. The message and underlying theme are serious. There are parts of this book that are downright disturbing.

Molly Harper

I think my books are lighter and funnier than some of the big series out there. You may not walk away from my books having learned a life-altering lesson, but you will feel better for having laughed for a few hours. It's just a different style of writing.

James Frey

I think I made a lot of mistakes in writing the book and promoting the book.

I think he's the only person who can do it -- unless we get Jesse Jackson, and I think he might be booked up.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

I think knowing that the image will go down in the history books is the greatest prize.

It is Florida. It is the holidays. The rooms are booked with most of the hotels. We knew this day would come. We didn't know it would come this soon.

Sophie Hannah

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Milo Hamilton

I'm sure a lot of people will be surprised to know what was going on, and that's why I wrote about it. It's my book and my story, and it was time for me to say some things about some people that have been a part of my life and that I've had some bumps and bruises.

Steven Hall

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

Dakota Blue Richards

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Mary Gordon

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

David Liss

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it was going, but eventually I figured it out,