Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.

William Rehnquist

I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it.

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Kathleen Norris

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier

Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to repair a car encourages their children to want to read.

John Archibald (in the book as well as in real life) is a big, important part of the yard.

Emerson Spartz

J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's release, ... I had to stay up all night to read through the entire book in time for the interview.

Lord Byron

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Galway Kinnell

I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.

I actually wrote it down when Jamie said that. I'm going to use it in my book someday ? if I ever write a book.

Have you tried to book a vacation around the holidays lately? You have to do it six months in advance.

Bob Feller

He kept harping about 'What rules don't they know?' And I said, 'The entire rule book is something that they just don't know, that they should know.' He got a little testy about it and he said, 'If you don't like it, hang up' -- which I did.

Jean Harlow

HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about.

Graeme Base

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Tony Buzan

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Nicholas Sparks

Having the book sell out of stores is far and away the most difficult step of all. Walk into a bookstore these days and scan the shelves. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of books, are competing with yours and the front of the store is dominated by brand-name authors.

Going forward, stock specific movement will continue. It is advisable to buy on declines and book profits at higher levels.

Going by the statement of the honorary secretary, we felt the rule book was not properly referred to.

Johnny Ball

Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book About Numbers

Bobby Jenks

He's just very good at what he does. I'm sure he feels the same way. That he can take the last two outings and put them in the book and be ready for tomorrow. You can never doubt yourself when you are a closer. It's very important. You can't dwell over the little things or it will be stuck in your head the next time you go out.

Steve Finley

I think it's crap that (the investigation) is just because the book came out.

It includes 200 recipes all in one book and saves having to cut recipes from magazines and storing them somehow.

Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

I think the image I had in my head from the book -- they've captured it.

I thought a lot of people would dismiss the subject as trivial, ... and ... that regardless of what I achieved, the subject would be dismissed. I think I've been gratified more than anything. Whether people like the book or don't like the book, they treat the subject as worthy of discussion.

James Frey

I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want to do at all.