Books Quote by Alison Lurie Download Open image “Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.” — Alison Lurie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Literature Real Surprise Travel
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by the knowing of their destination” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world.… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future. — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“In most novels it is taken for granted that people over fifty are as set in their ways as elderly apple trees, and as… — Alison Lurie 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
