Books Quote by Amos Oz Download Open image “Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.” — Amos Oz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Eye Foreheads Literature May Middle Reader Third eye Thirds
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“All the profits that Papa made by the sweat of his brow from his mill she extorted from him and spent the lot on… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never… — Amos Oz 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
