Book Quote by Ann Patchett Download Open image “I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.” — Ann Patchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hate I hate Time
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there.… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“When you think of love you think as an American. You must think like a Russian. It is a more expansive view.' 'Americans havea… — Ann Patchett 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
