When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a... →
Wes Anderson
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just... →
Maya Angelou
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said... →
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure... →
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but... →
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but... →
Francesca Annis
With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I... →
Aziz Ansari