Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orhan Pamuk

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Willie Geist

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.

Warren Ellis

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.

Virat Kohli

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

Aaron Swartz

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

Bertha von Suttner

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

Benny Green

We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.

Alexander Theroux

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

Alexander Theroux

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Alexander Theroux

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Alexander Pushkin

There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord Put me to witness much for many years And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.

Alexander Smith

In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

Alexander Smith

Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

Alexander Smith

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

We didn't book any security, there was no stage and we only had a vocal PA,

William Shakespeare

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

William Shakespeare

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

Erin Morgenstern

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Halldor Laxness

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

Helen Dunmore

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Helen Oyeyemi

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

We are really happy at the number of people who have discovered the property already and booked reservations,

We are quietly optimistic. If you try ... you can't book until April.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Tony Stewart

Yeah, but he's around it every week. It's hard when you're not around that, to go every week to get caught up. Every year that goes by, it just seems like that's a part of my career that is kind of like a chapter in a book that seems it's closed and we've moved on to another chapter.

James Thurber

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

We recognized there were tens of millions of fans of the book ... and therefore we followed a strategy to make a movie that would be true to the book.