Books Quote by Adam Phillips Going Sane Download Open image ““Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”” — Adam Phillips Going Sane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Characters Fiction Literature Shakespeare Writing
“People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.” — Colette Copy Share Image
“The sane world is horrible. The Pillar was right. Living among the sane is insane.” — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Scarcely anything in literature is worth a damn except what is written between the lines.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.” — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I am the sanest person I know. This says nothing about me and everything about my acquaitances” — Dave Morgan Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, "the wildest dreams," into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his artfulness that… — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image