Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!
Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.
I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.
The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.
In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.