Books Quote by Alan Bradley

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a…

— Sylvia Earle

“The krill are in a rebuilding year. The krill are always in a rebuilding year. Every year the whole franchise of 60,000,000,000 krill gets…

— Karen Russell

“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile…

— Ogden Nash

“He was only for the joyous days, the days of courage, when she could share with him all the good things he brought with…

— Anaïs Nin

“Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.”

— Aldous Huxley

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

— Romare Bearden

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

“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

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs