Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert K. Massie

Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.

Mark Twain

Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.

Bryan Singer

From comic books to radio to TV to the movies, everyone knows this character. And they have an idea of who he should be. Those can be big expectations.

For publishers and authors, this means that electronic books and periodicals can now quickly grow to become a vast and lucrative new industry.

Lykke Li

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

I don't think we need another law on the books to cover that subject.

From the publisher's point of view, there are lots of issues because students buy books and sell them back. Future students might only buy the used textbooks.

Fortunately, in talking with the classroom teacher, she shared with me that the children recently read a couple of books on loss -- 'Charlotte's Web' and 'The Taste of Blackberries,' ... The children had an opportunity to discuss feelings and talk about what it meant to lose someone and to share with each other.

Howard Stern

I got books full of notes, like a mental patient. I wish I could plug a wire into my head and play it for everyone.

Terry Pratchett

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

He was a new coach and decided to give me another chance. I got to go to a little smaller town, concentrate on my books and play basketball. I'm on track to graduate in May, and I think I've made the most of it.

One of these years they will be right. If there is ever a safety or the game goes into overtime, everyone knows the books will take a hit.

Frank Capra

One of these books isn't, by any chance, called 'Filibusters I Have Known,' is it?

Peter Coyote

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.

Jean Fritz

One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.

Holly Black

One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Holly Black

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.

Andrew Wyatt

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

I was really proud of our daughters. My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was really proud of our daughters, ... My youngest, who is 3, donated her two favorite books and said she wanted a little one to have them.

I was surprised at this concept, but I think it's a fun and interesting way to get people to take interest in books and come visit the library.

Mark Millar

I wouldn't let kids near half the stuff I've written so it is quite lovely to pass these little books out to children when they visit the house.

I wouldn't want to see people giving one company hundreds of thousands of books and thinking it doesn't matter, when in fact it does.

I would recommend books weigh between two and three pounds.

I guess it's a pretty big weekend for both of us. I'm preparing for another big step in my career at Texas. Tiger is looking to place himself in the record books again. I'm sure we're both excited for different reasons.

Jeffrey Skilling

If we don't do this, the books that will get written will be wrong, like the books that have been written so far. I am innocent of all of these charges and I will fight for that for a long time.

If we had stuck with that cover concept for the remaining books in the series, I think it would have failed. But we were quick to respond, and it's been successful.

Gene Luen Yang

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

I got my books stolen. They wanted my work.

If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'

Ayelet Waldman

If they want to be someone who is not loathsome, they'll have to wait till the next book.

Scott Tucker

She's like a sponge: she soaks up everything that is being said, ... We talk about nature all the time, and we read to her three to four books every night; books on amphibians, reptiles, but also other books on other topics are mixed in there.

Markus Zusak

So many teenage books say, 'This is in your voice, this is about you,' and that's great. We really need that. But we also need books that say, 'This is also for you, but you need to come up here, to step up to this.