Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Ricky Jay

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

Richard Russo

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

We were having so much trouble getting the cars feeling the same, I started questioning the work the guys were doing if they were cutting corners or setting them up right. I questioned what was going on with the weight, and we got to looking in the books and saw it got away from us.

We were slammed when we went to do pick-ups. It took two days (as opposed to one in previous years), and people have been dropping off books ever since. The hallways of our offices are literally choked with (boxes of ) books.

Whitley Strieber

To make a long story short: the way I work out my fears is in the fiction. The results of that work go into the books of fact.

To limit the press is to insult a nation ; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves

We're up there (in the ranks of weird spots and stories). Of all the books I've written, this one was the easiest. I could have written four times as much.

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.

Octavia Butler

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

P. C. Cast

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Philippe Petit

I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.

Orhan Pamuk

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

We have a lot of books so this will be a new element that should be exciting.

Carol Berg

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

Joseph Howe

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Henry Miller

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.

Eddie Trunk

My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.

Darren Shan

My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.

Arthur Hailey

Mostly because inactivity has never suited me well, and it isn't practical for me to write other books with worldwide implications and so on.

Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day

Lars Ulrich

...Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...

When students enrolled, they often found overcrowded classrooms, unprepared instructors and few computers, books or other necessary materials,

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

Heinrich Heine

Wherever they burn books they will also end up burning people.

Mats Sundin

It definitely deserves something. That shot goes into the history books.

I think knowing that the image will go down in the history books is the greatest prize.

Sophie Hannah

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Steven Hall

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return. I am here because there is no other place to be.

Greg Graffin

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Ben Horowitz

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.