Books Quote by Andrew Smith Download Open image ““I thought about words - like words in books - and how just saying them made things real.”” — Andrew Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Language
“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you could control.… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Apparently people who were in books actually sounded like a book when they talked. This was quite the surprising discovery.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what… — Andrew Smith Copy Share
“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.” — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
“Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and… — Andrew Smith 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