Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Cameron

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

Fans of the show are obsessive. We think a lot of them will be buying the book just to look for clues

But people also form expectations in other ways - from their order book and information in the marketplace and the media.

Michael Cunningham

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

Action Bronson

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

We sell as much of his kids' books as we do his books for adults.

We're talking about students pocket books and what they'll have to pay.

We're talking about a person with great integrity who played by the book and, as far as I know, never deviated from the rules.

We need to get these tax incentives on the books and help Katrina victims make a fresh start,

We need to sell 10 books a day from every machine to make them profitable. Vending machines aren't going to outshine traditional bookshops.

Anthony Browne

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

Alison Goldfrapp

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading

The government should make use of the laws we already have on the books (to stop pornography).

Ashwin Sanghi

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

We didn't get his name in the book on Senior Day. He didn't start, and it really bothered me. I wanted to make sure he had a chance to start.

We had 32 sets of books running in one instance of Oracle several years ago. You can imagine how fast data was collecting -- and we do business in 29 different countries, each with its own retention requirements. We turned to archiving to get our database down to a useable size.

We are so positive New Orleans is a premier destination for our conference that we have already booked the convention center for a return visit in 2009.

We are so happy that these supplies and books can be used to help the children of Alabama. Our name is Feed The Children, and for more than 25 years, we've been doing just that. But, we know how important it is to feed the mind as well as the body.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Yet it's the only way to get some fizz into the book trade.

Stephen Jay Gould

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

You have many games that are movie tie-ins or book tie-ins that historically have not done well because you haven't been able to translate what was good about the book, what was positive about the book, into an entertainment environment.

Christian Kane

You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it's in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.

Barney Frank

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Robyn Davidson

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

Haruki Murakami

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Greg van Eekhout

'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It's a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.

Cyril Connolly

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book

Floyd Abrams

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Edward Klein

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.