Author Quote by Arthur Smith Download Open image “The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.” — Arthur Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Author Awe Before Book Books Garbage May More Stand Weighs
“My book is a light read. Seriously, it probably weighs 3.33 ounces. That’s pretty impressive, considering it’s an ebook.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort.” — Dave Preston Copy Share Image
This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos 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
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“WHEN THE ALMIGHTY HAS PREDESTINED YOU, THERE IS NOONE IN THIS PHYSICAL LIFE THAT CAN BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS…” — Muffin Copy Share Image
“From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image