Book Quote by Caroline Gordon Download Open image “A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.” — Caroline Gordon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Dozen Enough Firsts Half Materials
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? — John James Audubon 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
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they… — Caroline Gordon 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