Book famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
-- Adrian Lyne -
The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
-- Adrian McKinty -
Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that.
-- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc -
There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
-- Adrian Rogers -
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky -
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
-- Adriana Trigiani -
My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.
-- Aerin Lauder -
I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
-- Aerin Lauder -
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.
-- Aesop Rock -
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.
-- Afua Cooper -
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
-- Aga Khan III -
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
-- Agatha Christie -
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
-- Agatha Christie -
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
-- Agatha Christie -
People should be interested in books, not their authors.
-- Agatha Christie -
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings
-- Agatha Christie -
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
-- Ahmet Zappa -
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
-- Aidan Chambers -
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
-- Aidan Chambers -
You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
-- Al Capp -
Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.
-- Al Di Meola -
There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'
-- Al Franken -
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
-- Al Jaffee -
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
-- Al Leiter -
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
-- Al Seckel -
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
-- Al Seckel -
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!
-- Al-Maʿarri -
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
-- Al-Shafi‘i -
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
-- Alain de Botton -
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
-- Alain de Botton -
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
-- Alain de Botton -
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-- Alain de Botton -
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
-- Alain de Botton -
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.
-- Alain de Botton -
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
-- Alain de Botton -
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
-- Alain de Botton -
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.
-- Alain de Botton -
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
-- Alain de Botton -
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
-- Alain de Botton -
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
-- Alain de Botton -
Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
-- Alain de Lille -
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
-- Alain Resnais -
I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
-- Alan Alda -
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
-- Alan Arkin -
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
-- Alan Bennett -
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
-- Alan Bennett -
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
-- Alan Bennett -
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
-- Alan Bennett -
You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
-- Alan Bennett -
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
-- Alan Bennett -
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
-- Alan Bennett -
I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.
-- Alan Bennett -
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
-- Alan Bennett -
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
-- Alan Bennett -
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
-- Alan Bennett -
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
-- Alan Bennett -
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
-- Alan Bennett -
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
-- Alan Bennett -
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
-- Alan Blinder -
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
-- Alan Bradley -
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
-- Alan Bradley -
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
-- Alan Bradley -
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.
-- Alan Bradley -
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
-- Alan Davies -
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
-- Alan Furst -
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
-- Alan Furst -
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
-- Alan Furst -
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
-- Alan Furst -
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
-- Alan Garner -
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
-- Alan Garner -
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
-- Alan Kay -
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
-- Alan King -
I should have written books instead of reading them.
-- Alan Lightman -
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
-- Alan Lightman -
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
-- Alan Lightman -
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
-- Alan Lightman
