Books Quote by Colette Download Open image ““People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.”” — Colette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.” — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
“...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.” — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ” — Katarina Anhava Copy Share Image
“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.” — Colette Copy Share Image
“The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or… — Colette Copy Share Image
“The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's… — Colette Copy Share Image
“My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.” — Colette Copy Share Image
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's… — Colette Copy Share Image
“Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be… — Colette Copy Share Image
“It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a… — Colette Copy Share Image
“[Julie] had lived a great deal among lies, before plumping for a small life of her own, a sincere and restricted life from which… — Colette Copy Share Image
“The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for… — Colette Copy Share Image
“But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand, warm to… — Colette Copy Share Image
“Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful… — Colette 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
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