Books Quote by Gabrielle Dubois Download Open image ““No happiness in the writer, no happiness in the reader.”” — Gabrielle Dubois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Happiness Reader Writer Writing
“Happiness is not a popular subject in literary fiction. We struggle, as writers, to make happiness, contentment, and satisfaction interesting. Perfection often lacks texture.” — Roxanne Gay Copy Share Image
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ” — Katarina Anhava Copy Share Image
“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.” — Grace Bridges 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
“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“I sit down by the river. Its incessant flow has polished the rocks carried from the top of the mountain. The aqueous caress, that… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Take and remember the best part of a book like the best part of life!” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days of dullness… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories; they are the best part of me.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois 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
