Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Rick Riordan

The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Arthur Miller

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Brian Aldiss

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brenda Ueland

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Jane Hirshfield

I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.

Jane Hirshfield

The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

Jane Goodall

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

Ben Harper

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Anne Lamott

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Sally Quinn

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Stephen Spender

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Ringo Starr

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Tim Burton

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Jessye Norman

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Eric Carr

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

Elvis Costello

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.