Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head.
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.
The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
Maybe I'm an open book, or maybe love is like a magnifying glass straight into the souls of those who own your heart.
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I used to read every golf magazine front to back; I was addicted to Golf Channel, read Rotella, read every golf book.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.