Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack White

Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?

James Galway

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

James Gleick

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

Jean Fritz

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

Jean Craighead George

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

Jean Craighead George

I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.

Jean Harlow

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

Jean Dubuffet

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

Graham Swift

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

I don't reread my books.

Gloria Allred

I have represented people in book deals.

Gloria Estefan

[To beginning readers (ages 4 to 8) at a reading of "Noelle's Treasure Tale"]: If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

Gertrude Stein

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Jim Jefferies

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

Jim Jarmusch

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

Jim Jarmusch

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Jim Cummings

Bonkers doesn't go by the book-he doesn't even know there is a book.

Jessica Mitford

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

Jessica Pare

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Jessamyn West

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Jess Walter

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

Jeremy Robinson

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Jeremy Sisto

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

Jenny Lawson

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

Jenny Lawson

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Jenny Lawson

Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

Jenna Fischer

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Glen Mazzara

The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.

Glenn Close

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.