Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Leiter

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Chris Adrian

It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

Chris Abani

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

Chip Kidd

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

China Mieville

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

China Mieville

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

China Mieville

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

China Mieville

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Edward Hirsch

Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

Edward Gibbon

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Edith Wharton

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

David Walliams

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

David Heyman

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

David Icke

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

Beatrice Wood

I'm not too interested in books about India.

August Wilson

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

Arthur Ransome

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Arnold Bennett

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Antony Beevor

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Antony Beevor

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

Antony Beevor

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Antonin Artaud

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

Diablo Cody

I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch.

Denis O'Hare

I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

Deidre Hall

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

John Schuerholz

The point of the book was to give fans an inside look at what a general manager does, in terms of personal interaction, in terms of trade-making, in terms of issues that general managers deal with. In this case, I thought I had an opportunity, with literary license, to show a very human side of him. If his point is, 'OK, John, that was a private conversation and I would prefer that you keep it that way,' I understand that.

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We've already got the hats, the T-shirts. We've got poker cigarette lighters, poker card holders and posters. The one thing they've missed out on of everything they've put out is that they've forgot to put out a book of how to run a card room.

We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.