Books Quote by Douglas Sirk Download Open image “If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.” — Douglas Sirk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands. — Douglas Sirk 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
