Book Quote by Amy Tan Download Open image “I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.” — Amy Tan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Miserable Salvation Saved Thinking
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I literally feel like books saved my life. I found these people. Me reading Camus and Kafka, all of the tortured teenager stuff of… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Lebih baik jadi orang yang TIDAK TERLUPAKAN daripada orang yang MEMBOSANKAN -” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in… — Amy Tan 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image