Reads Like Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
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Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all the more riveting.…
— Robert Leuci
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The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty…
— Rivka Galchen
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Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to…
— Megan Abbott
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The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest…
— Weston La Barre
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Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black…
— Robin Spriggs
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What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code…
— Joshua Bloch
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Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.
— Susan Stinson
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Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or…
— Jay McInerney
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Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and…
— John Seabrook
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The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one…
— Steve Jobs
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What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like…
— Jeanette Winterson
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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
— Robert Penn Warren
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
— Craig Brown
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It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years
— Garrison Keillor
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Im tatted from my face to my foot so my body reads like a good book
— Nipsey Hussle
Who Wrote These Reads Like Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Reads Like Quotes as follows: