Famous Quotes & Sayings

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

John Corey Whaley

I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.

Jose Gonzalez

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Priscilla Presley

I'm a very shy person. My daughter and I don't do a lot of interviews, but we felt there was a whole new generation of people who were discovering Elvis and his music. There are many books and stories that have been written about him, but there are still so many questions that needed to be answered, so we figured it was time to tell our story. We are sharing some very intimate and personal things, but I really wanted to show the definitive Elvis, warts and all.

Jon Favreau

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Cassie Scerbo

I'm a total Twihard. I read all the books and saw every movie on opening night with my mom.

Jacqueline Wilson

I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose counts towards their tally for rewards. It's all about reading for pleasure.

If you look at the numbers, you can tell the NIT went strictly by the book.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Adam Baldwin

Hopefully, young people will read more books, and it will cause them to think a little longer, than just react to pretty pictures.

Stephen King

I don't think my books would've have been as successful as they are if the readers didn't think they were in the hands of a true crazy person. When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

Mary Roach

I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

If life is short, then how come most books reflect the opposite approach?

I have noted the growing market for HR books.

Jason Giambi

I have no idea what's in the book. I handled it last year and I've gone forward from that.

I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like that and I love puzzles. It (the book) didn't spell anything out for you. You had to read it carefully.

Alice McDermott

I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

I never find books that interest me, something that doesn't take a long time to get into.

Jim Lee

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jennifer Weiner

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

I like to read. I'm going to read my book.

Janet Fitch

I just wanted to live in books and in movies.

I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.

I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you'll tidy a particular room, set goals such as 'clothes today, books tomorrow.'

I recommend they use both shoulder straps, ... I also recommend that parents get a second set of books -- one for home and one for school, so they're not carrying them back and forth.

John Corey Whaley

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfiction.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

Chuck Hogan

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.

I look at it like the cover on a book, ... We'd like to see something really great go there, because of its visibility.

Darren Shan

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

I live in north Kenner and everything in the house flooded, ... All her books flooded, school shoes flooded, everything. Should we just show up for the first day of school?