Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrison Keillor

Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Garrison Keillor

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

Garrison Keillor

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

Garrison Keillor

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Garrison Keillor

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

Garrison Keillor

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Gabrielle Aplin

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

Franka Potente

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

Franka Potente

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

Francois Fenelon

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Francois Truffaut

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, “When you love life, you go to the movies,” it’s false! It’s exactly the opposite: when you don’t love life, or when life doesn’t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

Francois Truffaut

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Frank Bruni

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Francois Mauriac

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

George Crabbe

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lloyd Jones

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

Lloyd Jones

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

Logan Lerman

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Lynn Abbey

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Lynn Abbey

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Lynn Abbey

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Lynn Abbey

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Lynda Barry

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

Lynda Barry

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Luke Bryan

I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

Ludwig Bemelmans

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Feuerbach

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Lucian

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.