Books Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Bronx Literature Nathaniel-hawthorne Ralph waldo emerson Reading Robert-mccrum Youth
“I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Harry leaned back, his hat over his inscrutable face. “Well?” Ben nudged him. “Thomas Paine, or a nubile beauty from Sicily?” “Clearly Thomas Paine.… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“…but because they felt the neighborhood was safer than the one around Columbia, the medical campus of which was so far north that it… — Michelle Au Copy Share Image
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially the children.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“People are looking at you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity." ~Gale Hawthorne” — Suzzane Collins Copy Share Image
“And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo 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
