Books Quote by Boris Karloff Download Open image ““The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore”” — Boris Karloff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Introduction Introductions Preface
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
“Every book your read is an opportunity for self-growth and expansion.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed… — Roz Morris Copy Share Image
“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.” — Ford Maddox Copy Share Image
“Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.” — B.R. Myers Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. — Boris Karloff Copy Share Image
When I was nine I played the Demon King in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a… — Boris Karloff Copy Share Image
Certainly I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their… — Boris Karloff 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
