Book Quotes

"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble"

Don Nickles, Politician

"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should"

Stephen Dorff, Actor

"I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period"

Rick Wakeman, Musician

"Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time"

LaToya Jackson, Musician

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for"

Poul Anderson, Writer

"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science"

Poul Anderson, Writer

"Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise"

Philip Schaff, Theologian

"It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing"

Neil Jordan, Director

"Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"The age of the book is almost gone"

George Steiner, Critic

"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why"

Katharine Whitehorn

"The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead"

Vince Vaughn, Actor

"Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, Novelist

"Read books. They are good for us"

Natalie Goldberg, Author

"In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio"

Juice Newton, Musician

"I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad"

Soundarya, Actress

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book"

John Pople, Scientist

"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class"

Martin C. Smith

"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right"

Martin C. Smith

"I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!"

Robert McCloskey, Author

"It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think"

Robert McCloskey, Author

"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

"Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me"

Jules Shear, Musician

"I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com"

Piers Anthony, Writer

"But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer"

Anne Tyler, Novelist

"The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else"

Mary Crosby, Actress

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