Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcia Muller

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

There's no such thing as an original idea. We're all inspired by books, magazines and movies.

Dave Wannstedt

There's no short cuts. There's no books you can read to solve this thing.

There's no doubt German firms are doing exceptionally well: order books are full to the brim and business confidence is at levels not seen since reunification. But they haven't started hiring yet. They know that in 2007 a very large fiscal tightening is envisaged, so this could be a short-lived rise in demand.

John Searles

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

Malorie Blackman

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

I see this as a way for local writers to celebrate and sell some of the books which we have produced. And with all these creative energies, it should be exciting.

Tess Gerritsen

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

Oprah Winfrey

I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections, ... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words.

We try to deal with small publishers who aren't well known. These are wonderful books, but you'll never find them at B. Dalton or Barnes & Noble.

When I stopped her she fought. I followed CBP procedure by the book,

Jilly Cooper

When I started writing, I thought the only way to write books that were set in the country was to go and look at the primroses on Putney Common.

Steve Spurrier

We got Pops a catch for the record book.

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.

Their initial reaction was, 'You should burn that book. You should bury it. The last thing you want to do is a documentary about it,

Caroline Leavitt

Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction,-that one can put the books down at anytime.

Morris Gleitzman

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

Romesh Gunesekera

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Daniel H. Wilson

In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.

I knew he was a writer, we had all his books in the library, but it never really clicked. And I remember being in the library and taking out one of his books and then I realized -- he did this for a living.

Johnny Damon

I know all of us enjoyed it. There were tons of books and DVDs that made it seem it was easy to accomplish. It wasn't.

Johnny Damon

I know all of us enjoyed it, ... There were tons of books and DVDs that made it seem it was easy to accomplish. It wasn't.

I like the books because the heroines don't do what others want them to, they do what they want.

Chelsea Cain

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Mark Haddon

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Chris Murray

I'm reading six, seven, eight books at a time.

Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.

Meg Cabot

The minute the text-messaging icon went up on my Web site, teens were talking about it on my message boards. Anything that gets kids excited about books is great. This is just reading in a totally different way.

Everybody has lots of books that are slightly used and garden magazines. You used it once and don't need it anymore, but somebody else could use it.