Quotes 481 till 496 of 496.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
De uren (1998) -
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.
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Revelation: A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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