Book Quotes

"Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed"

James Larkin, Activist

"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David"

Luke Ford, Writer

"I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually"

Helen Garner, Novelist

"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book"

George Murray, Poet

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige"

George Murray, Poet

"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels"

Dorothy Allison, Writer

"I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look"

Delta Burke, Actress

"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books"

David Strathairn, Actor

"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin"

Charlotte Rampling, Actress

"I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches"

Anita Diament, Author

"I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy"

Alan Bates, Actor

"I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape"

Benny Green, Musician

"Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books"

Beverly Cleary, Author

"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy"

Ben E. King, Musician

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