Book Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Extravagant Out Pure Started Up
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student in the… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard 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
