Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Patterson

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

Richard Flanagan

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

With the restaurants and the books he's got going on, it seems like he needs the constant reminder that he's out there. It's all part of the aura, and I think he has to tour to perpetuate that aura.

Mark Frauenfelder

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

We want to put books in everyone's hands.

We have no problem with the audit. Our books are open to everyone.

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

Norman MacCaig

There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.

There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.

We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.

Michael Francis

Would I expect anything different from the Bush administration? No. They will cook the books for whatever they want.

Joanne Harris

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Sally Phillips

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

Anthony Horowitz

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.

Action Bronson

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

We've been predicting this will overtake print books in about 10 years. In the first six months it will be a very small part of Steve's business. But three to five years out we see a billion-dollar marketplace.

We sell as much of his kids' books as we do his books for adults.

We're talking about students pocket books and what they'll have to pay.

We need to get these tax incentives on the books and help Katrina victims make a fresh start,

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren't going to outshine traditional bookshops.

The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).

Andie MacDowell

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

Brian P. Cleary

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

Birdy

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

Joshua Foer

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

Brewster Kahle

Social networks, search engines and things yet invented are critical as we bring millions of movies, books and musical recordings online.

The last day of the year many years ago used to be the busiest say of the year, but that ended about 15 years ago. This holiday offers a three-day weekend and most institutions have closed their books by now.

The last chapter hasn't been written in this book.

The intent of Sarbanes-Oxley was to serve the shareholders, to ensure whatever books and records a public company keeps are transparent.

The message of the case is straightforward: Cooking the books is a recipe for disaster.