Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toronto really wanted this premiere. The Tolkien books and films are hugely popular in Canada.

We had 32 sets of books running in one instance of Oracle several years ago. You can imagine how fast data was collecting -- and we do business in 29 different countries, each with its own retention requirements. We turned to archiving to get our database down to a useable size.

We are so happy that these supplies and books can be used to help the children of Alabama. Our name is Feed The Children, and for more than 25 years, we've been doing just that. But, we know how important it is to feed the mind as well as the body.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Thomas Carlyle

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

F. H. Bradley

The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Joseph O'Neill

When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of a voice and a sensibility underpinned by an authenticity which, I think, if you're a good writer, you can extract from the specific details of your own time. I think most writers do hope that their books will be read in ten years.

Italo Calvino

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

Hermann Hesse

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

We're trying to find someone who can print up the books for free, because we do not have the cash flow to do that ourselves, ... Our sales rep is running around to all the printing plants, trying to find someone.

We're trying to find someone who can print up the books for free.

We just won't be a walk-in bookstore anymore. As long as there are call-in orders we will keep that (side of the business) going.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Meg Rosoff

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

Ned Vizzini

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

Lisa Morton

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Marie Lu

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

John Searles

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

Our hope is to somehow take King off the pages of history books and somehow bring him to life in a way that people will find compelling.

Paul Davis

Our scouting reports are longer than some of the books I have to read in school.

Our first store, in 1990, was in the shopping center where the movie theater is now. We bought selected books from a bookseller in DeLand and we had already developed a good business core in the selling and trading side of the business.

Our training for Melbourne depends so much on the documents and the training log books, so please return it.

Francis Bacon

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

Jon Lewis

Our writing process is different. We storyboard it first. We're so visual, and we didn't want to lose that. We want our books to be very cinematic. We want to create awe-inspiring sequences.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

We need all those wonderful books people have on their bookshelves and are willing to part with.

I think there always will be the need for the books and the lectures and the classrooms, and the classroom material. And that's where our secret comes in. This is supplemental to that.

Ron Gardenhire

Just another one for the books. Ohhhh God.

Nick Hornby

I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.

Julian Bond

I said, 'Read these books and you don't have to be here.

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.