Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
I guess people just like Netflix. And they like rom-coms, and I was fortunate enough to book two random ones that got sold to Netflix.
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
I don't understand "The Little World of the Past" [a reference to the title of the book by Antonio Fogazzaro] that is destined to die.
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.
I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.
No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.
I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.