Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Drake

He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books

He has a small 13-inch TV, eight CDs, six books.

He has always completely opened up his books to the government. He unequivocally maintains his innocence.

Greyhound has a terrific safety record. The union insists that drivers who are fatigued have a right to book off. And the company has a policy: If a driver says he or she is fatigued, then Greyhound doesn't use them.

William Shakespeare

He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.

He himself ought to make a statement and come to the forefront and talk to you in person or with any of the media and say here's our books, they're open, they're on the table. You guys can peruse the books and examine them for whatever you think there is there. There's nothing to hide. Here they are.

James Atlas

He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.

He has the idea on the shakiest of evidence that there is a man on the other side of the state who's his father, ... And this book tells about his journey to find this man, and find out who he is, try to find his place in the world.

Rose Macaulay

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.

He gave me a book and said he was going to give me a quiz on the first 24 pages,

Jane Asher

Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened.

Fran Lebowitz

Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication

He made investing make sense, ... His books are as good a read as you can find on investing.

John Chaney

He managed a lot of big plantations before he worked for us. As for turkey hunting, he lives it. He could write books about it.

Siri Hustvedt

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'

Ayelet Waldman

If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.

Dakota Blue Richards

I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Mary Gordon

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

David Liss

I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it was going, but eventually I figured it out,

Julie Klausner

I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with.

Andrew Adamson

I didn't want to make the book as it was, I wanted to make the book as I remembered it.

Bernard Cornwell

I'd like to cut it down to three books in two years instead of two a year - but whether that'll happen I don't know.

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Karen Russell

I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her. What nebula of books and stories were whirling together inside her at the time of her death.

I'd like you always to have a book at your desk.

Mary Pope Osborne

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

Paul Jewell

I don't know what the situation is (with Camara). He was booked on a flight yesterday (Friday). I don't want to say too much at the moment.

Peter Budaj

I don't know why (the referee) gave him a penalty shot. It says in the rule book that if he gets a shot off, even if he's hooked or whatever, it should be just 2 minutes.

I don't know why people aren't using the library frequently. Maybe it's the pull of the new bookstores, maybe it's something else. I'm not sure, but I do know we have computers here -- six for public use in this facility and 14 system-wide -- and our books are free. If you or your child reads a lot, the library is the place to visit.