William Goldman Quotes

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

I was lucky enough to know Maurice Sendak, and talked to him about doing the movie. For a while, I was really apprehensive of it, because Where The Wild Things Are is a book I love so much, and I didn't want to add something to it just to be able to make a movie, or put my stamp on it, or something like that.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, "Look who's talking".

I gave them a fair warning

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.