Book Quotes · Page 53

I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem,…

— Roger Ross Williams

“Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.”

— The Letters Of Gratitude

Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

— Clive James

When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had…

— Jacob Epstein

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend…

— R. A. Salvatore

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book.…

— Jim Beaver

I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

— Ang Lee

I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure…

— David Plotz

It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle…

— Anonymous

I never wanted to do a documentary or write a book.

— Dave Clark

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

— Willis Lamb

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted…

— Marina Tsvetaeva

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

— Carson McCullers

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug…

— Alice Munro

There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in…

— James McBride

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one…

— Sophie Kinsella

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians…

— Michel Foucault

Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK…

— Fergus McCann

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know…

— Alice Mattison

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking…

— Skip Horack