Books Quote by Amanda Eyre Ward Download Open image ““Is reading a sport?”” — Amanda Eyre Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reading Sports
“Do you know what is an important part of the sport for me? It is giving an opportunity to myself to play it, what… — Bhawna Dehariya Copy Share Image
“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know” — John Berendt Copy Share Image
“People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone’s vocation.” — Rodney Ross Copy Share Image
“Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not.… — Amanda Eyre Ward Copy Share Image
“she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did… — Amanda Eyre Ward Copy Share Image
“as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to… — Amanda Eyre Ward Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.” — Amanda Eyre Ward Copy Share Image
“also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola. come here, said emmett. ” — Amanda Eyre Ward Copy Share Image
“When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.” — Amanda Eyre Ward 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
