Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're working currently, and I would expect within the next three months to book sales for the remaining 80.

Use this book as your workbook and reference guide.

VW, for example, has taken lots of leaves out of Ford's marketing book and learned how to move the metal.

William Shakespeare

This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

William Shakespeare

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

Philip Reeve

I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

Megan Fox

I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

Deb Caletti

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

Deb Caletti

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

Caroline Leavitt

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.

Without deferred tax credits, Hutchison needs to book exceptional gains this year to keep profits firmly in the black. We hope that this spurs the company into more corporate activity.

Stuart Pearce

With that he booked him again, so maybe in the future Sylvain will know not to ask.

We must be breaking some kind of world record by doing this. We're not in the 'Guinness Book of World Records' or anything, but if we could get sponsorship from Guinness beer, that would be sweet.

When we listen to something we like, we'll book it. We don't care if nobody's heard of them.

Tim Robbins

When we think about the authoritarian world that Orwell painted, the catchphrases are one thing, but when you read the book again, the specifics and relevance for now are stunning. Orwell may have been 20 years off, but I know that I find it incredibly relevant.

We will book the sale. It's just a question of whether it is this year or next year.

John Updike

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

Jack Kenny

Unfortunately, due to many reasons, The Book of Daniel will no longer be aired on NBC on Friday nights. I just wanted to say 'thank you' to all of you who supported the show. There were many wonderful, talented people who contributed to its success--and I do mean success.

Two mistakes haunt me: Not completing the manuscript of my book sooner and not buying Microsoft in 1986 before it split nine times.

When somebody, usually a teacher, says, 'The child is a little slower than we'd like to see with reading,' or a mother says, 'All my other kids will read a book at any opportunity, and this one doesn't like to read. He likes sports.' Then you find out sometimes that the children have a visual problem.

Every word in that book was written by her, for better or for worse.

David D. Burns

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

David Gerrold

There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

David Morrell

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

Isabel Allende

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.

Hill Harper

My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Hilary Mantel

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

Michael Morpurgo

With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand.

Christina Baker Kline

With a hardcover, you get two chances, a year apart, for the book to make an impact - often with a new cover featuring artfully crafted snippets of reviews, a new marketing campaign and maybe even a new publisher.

Rebecca Pidgeon

When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women she had interviewed had come to wine making later in life as a second career.

Danai Gurira

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Dana Spiotta

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.