Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has lots of books that are slightly used and garden magazines. You used it once and don't need it anymore, but somebody else could use it.

It's important that everyone have a comfortable place to sit. Even though this is a room for kids, Mom needs a place to sit while reading books or helping them with a project.

It's important for readers, especially girls to read characters that they can relate to and model themselves after: a strong female hero. The Nancy Drew books will be discussed in the program. Then, as girls grow-up, they want a grown-up Nancy Drew. We'll discuss that.

Meg Rosoff

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

Chris Van Allsburg

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

Julie Kenner

I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.

It took 16,000 bricks. I worked with my grandfather, who was a bricklayer and carpenter. We also relied on books from the library for the heating, wiring and plumbing.

It will be really dramatic. Three years from now, everything in the books will be done. This will really become a much more significant part of campus.

Claudio Sanchez

It was just a small idea, to write these records and songs that have a concept, ... and at some point create those records in another medium, whether it would be comic books or a novel or something else.

The visitation policy hasn't changed (in the books). There is a policy on the books that visitation Sunday night through Thursday night ends at midnight and then weekends it is 24 hours. So, it's not that the policy is not there. If there is a problem, a roommate conflict or something like that, the policy is still in place and can be enforced.

They want us to have our books picked out by mid-semester of fall for our spring classes. But many of us don't even know what we'll be teaching yet.

They have to keep their record books and think about their goals it's not just a horse standing in their backyard.

Robert Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works

John Wood

Things do go wrong, ... We had sent all these books to Nepal, but then we did an evaluation with local teachers.

I've got a huge collection of books I haven't even read yet because I've been so busy over the years. I want to travel. I love going out West, going to Maine.

Tanith Lee

I've written two books set in India... In the mid-'80s, I just fell for India, and it was like a love affair. I was obsessed with it. I read a few things, and looked at films, and it was as though I was more there than in England, where I was writing! This always happens to me, and it's magical.

Chelsea Cain

I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.

I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.

Robert Jordan

No, I never feel that it's getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it's good that I'm telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable.

Robert Winston

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

never reads books and I just started reading one because I had nothing else to do. I have problems going outside because if I get too overheated I pass out. Once the roads were cleaned out you couldn't drive because there wasn't gas. Once they did open up the gas stations the lines were a mile long. I siphoned gas out of the lawn mower into the car so I could go to the store and try to get stuff.

Jonathan Vilma

It's good to know we're going to be the last one. That makes it that much more special for us. We're going to be in the history books as the last Monday night game on ABC.

Kate Atkinson

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

Lauren Myracle

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

Lauren Willig

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

Katharine Kerr

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

Ken Follett

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

When we raise tuition five or three dollars a credit or when books go up, for many of these students this is the difference between their being able to go to school and not go to school.

Nancy Werlin

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

Nalo Hopkinson

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

Gabrielle Zevin

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

Nikki Sixx

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.