Book Quotes
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
Cornelia Funke
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[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
Oliver D. Crisp
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I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
William Golding
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Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
Saadi
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I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
Lynn Redgrave
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The rules that have been imposed, the rules that are already on the books haven't been effective. If you look at the places where the strictest gun control measures, whether it be California, Los Angeles, Barack Obama's home state in Chicago, they're a disaster, and they have the greatest rules in the world.
Sean Hannity
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Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.
Joanne Rowling
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We read to know we're not alone.
William Nicholson
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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Katherine Dunn
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In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.
Paul Auster
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My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.
Josie Bissett
