Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Hoffman

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Alice Hoffman

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

Alice Hoffman

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

Alice Hoffman

Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.

Alice Hoffman

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

Alice Hoffman

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Alice Hoffman

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

Alice Greczyn

It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.

Alice Eve

I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

Anne McCaffrey

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

Anne McCaffrey

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book

Anne McCaffrey

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

Anne Lamott

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Anne Lamott

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

Anne Lamott

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

Anne Lamott

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Anne Lamott

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Anne Lamott

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.

Allen West

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

Aerin Lauder

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

A. A. Milne

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

Richard Davies

The days where (the campus bookstore) had a mini-monopoly are coming to an end.

We'll have one two weeks in August. We hope to book a youth hockey tournament here.

We'll take a book like The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and read a chapter or two that week. Then I stand up and lead the discussion.

George Stephanopoulos

What I tried to do is write an honest book, and I think it is a fair book that showed all sides of the Clintons, of the White House at that time, and not really try to make too many hard judgments, ... This Week.

What I'm sensing is we're winning hands- down with the people who love the books, and we're winning with the people who love the movies.

What we stand for are the books we will choose today.

What we're trying to do is hold flights and book customers on later flights.

Alexander Payne

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alexander Payne

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

Alexander McCall Smith

I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

Alexander McCall Smith

If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!

Alexander McCall Smith

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.