Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colson Whitehead

I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

Colson Whitehead

In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I just finished I want to work on something different. The next book becomes an antidote to what I did before.

Colm Toibin

The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

Colm Toibin

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Colm Toibin

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Colum McCann

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

Colum McCann

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Colum McCann

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

Clifford Geertz

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

Clifford Geertz

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Conan O'Brien

Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

Conan O'Brien

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Conan O'Brien

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.

Conan O'Brien

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Conan O'Brien

A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

E. W. Howe

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Dwight Yoakam

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

Coventry Patmore

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Courtney Love

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book

Colin Morgan

I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. maybe that's the type of world we're living in. it's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's tv shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.

Colin Meloy

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Colin Mochrie

I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Quinn

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

George R. R. Martin

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Carol P. Christ

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Buzz Osborne

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Ariel Pink

Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

This series captured Austen's interest in showing the feelings of desire between Elizabeth and Darcy. The director managed to communicate that this is a book about what constitutes a good marriage, and that is love.

Iqbal Sacranie

There is no resolution of the problem as long as this very abusive and profane book is in publication and circulation.

Ezra Pound

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.

The phone system has been going nonstop, and I'm waiting for the initial online report. Some of our cabins may be booked solid by the end of the day.

Jack Donovan

There are already a lot of regulations in the books that I think are already pretty good. I don't think you necessarily have to go to the reinvention of that wheel.

John Brady

When you have seasons like we're having, you have to win a couple of games like that. You don't win them all by the book, and this one wasn't certainly by the book that we would've liked. It certainly goes down in the record book as a win. That's the important thing.