Book Quotes

"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new"

"One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends"

"Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc"

Thomas Spence, Writer

"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't"

Julian Barnes, Writer

"We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book"

Hansie Cronje, Athlete

"Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now"

Jerry Coleman, Athlete

"I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them"

Carlos Fuentes, Novelist

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book"

Austin Phelps, Clergyman

"When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do"

Paula Danziger, Author

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate"

Jack London, Novelist

"I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story"

George Brett, Athlete

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it"

William Styron, Novelist

"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"The wise are above books"

Samuel Daniel, Poet

"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore"

Robyn Davidson, Writer

"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"It is over with; I am in the history books"

Michael Moorer, Athlete

"I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had"

Michael Connelly, Author

"I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors"

Glenn Close, Actress

"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book"

Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman

"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's"

Colleen McCullough, Author

"I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come"

Ann Rule, Writer

"I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away"

Ann Rule, Writer

"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers"

Penelope Spheeris, Director

"The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything"

Thomas Love Peacock, Author

"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat"

Michael Ondaatje, Author

"In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book"

Terry Southern, Writer

"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about"

Jack K. Cooke

"The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack"

Taylor Lautner, Actor

"I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books"

Simon Callow, Actor

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