Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk Download Open image “I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.” — Chuck Palahniuk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Distracting I write Noisy Read World Write Writing
I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writing at home and then going out into the world to talk about why books matter to me feeds the writing. It's a good… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
