Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Gardner

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Howard Gardner

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Howard Aiken

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Hosea Ballou

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Horace

Books have their destinies.

Guy Gavriel Kay

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Guy Gavriel Kay

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

Gough Whitlam

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

Gottfried Leibniz

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Gore Vidal

Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

Gore Vidal

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Gore Vidal

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

Gore Vidal

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Gore Vidal

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

Gore Vidal

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Gore Vidal

Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.

Gore Vidal

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

Gina Barreca

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Gillian Flynn

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

Gillian Flynn

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

Gillian Flynn

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

Hassan Nasrallah

For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth.

Harvey Pekar

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Harvey Pekar

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Harvey Pekar

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

Harvey Pekar

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

Harvey Pekar

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

Harvey Pekar

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

Harvey Pekar

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Harvey Pekar

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

Harold Prince

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

James D. Watson

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

James Bryce

Life is too short to read inferior books.