Quotes about Books, page 3

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

Quote by Richard Ernst about books

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

Quote by Glenn Close about books

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more...

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

I write for myself, but I also write for my fans. I love hearing that people enjoy my books; I can never hear enough of that!

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

My books are different because I don't follow a certain formula. I simply write about subjects that fascinate me.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Quote by Jackie Collins about books

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about books

The hype for this particular Harry Potter film-I don't really feel it. I don't have a fan's investment in the books myself.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about books

I'm dyslexic, so there weren't a whole lot of books in my early life.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about books

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about books

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about books

Before I went off to North Carolina, I was reading a lot of directors' books, among them my father's autobiography. Because there's a very good chapter about the technicalities of filmmaking in that book.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about books

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Quote by Billy Joel about books

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about books

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about books

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about books

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about books