Books Quotes

I want to print books by people in the film industry.
Brett Ratner

Film, Industry, Print

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley

Used, Company, Mistresses

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

Love, True, Action

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
Christian Lacroix

Everything, House, Seen

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

Old, Looking, Clothes

I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter

Love, Everything, Read

I love books.
Gail Porter

I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
Gail Porter

Time, Bored, Written

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn

Great, Last, English

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary

Best, Friend, Person

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
Beverly Cleary

Give, Place, Often

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
Beverly Cleary

Down, Chance, Until

I read my books aloud before they were published.
Beverly Cleary

Before, Read, Aloud

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

Children, Read, Hear

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

Child, Growing, Based

I rarely read children's books.
Beverly Cleary

Children, Read, Rarely

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.
Beverly Cleary

Writing, Down, Word

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
Studs Terkel

Life, Work, Time

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel

Deep, American, Facts

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
Jonathan Coe

Political, Sometimes, Start

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Judy Blume

Best, Write, Inside

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
Frank Langella

Life, Change, Great

I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her. What nebula of books and stories were whirling together inside her at the time of her death.
Karen Russell

Love, Time, Death

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Career, Path, Actually

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Else, Actor, Somebody

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.
Clifford Geertz

Science, Writing, Whatever

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Clifford Geertz

Moon, View, Written

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti

Attention, Pictures, Full

I love books.
Reese Witherspoon

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
Joss Whedon

Art, Web, Comic

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