All Quotes

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
‐‐ Joseph Howe

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
‐‐ Marilyn French

My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
‐‐ Robert Crais

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
‐‐ Patricia Polacco

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
‐‐ Karen Traviss

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

My books have all generated controversy.
‐‐ Helen Fielding

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
‐‐ Bethenny Frankel

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'
‐‐ Kem Nunn

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
‐‐ Jeffrey Brown

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

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

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
‐‐ Howard Fast

My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
‐‐ Jesse Ball

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.
‐‐ Jay London

My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
‐‐ Carol Vorderman

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
‐‐ Magnus Scheving

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
‐‐ John McGraw

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.
‐‐ Jane Levy

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!
‐‐ Katie Hoff

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
‐‐ Julia Roberts

My boyfriend - Matt Kaplan - is American, so any time I'm unsure of how to say something, I say, 'Hey how do you say this?' and he yells it out.
‐‐ Claire Holt

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.
‐‐ Claudia Black

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.
‐‐ Tamara Ecclestone

My boyfriend, who I love to death - he's only 17 so he's the youngest guy I've ever dated - he just moved here from Hawaii to be with me and I met him when I was 10. Anyway, in Hawaii they have such a different mentality and different priorities.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me, but it is tough love with me.
‐‐ Jill Wagner

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
‐‐ Cleveland Abbe

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
‐‐ Jimmy Smith

My boys wear red pants or crazy color tops. My kids are more fashion forward in their own dressing.
‐‐ Heidi Klum