Books Quote by Gao Xingjian Download Open image ““Reading this chapter is optional but as you’ve read it you’ve read it.”” — Gao Xingjian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Sometimes there are chapters in our lives we don’t want others to read.” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones least likely… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You may have wanted to read it when you bought it, but if you haven’t read it by now, the book’s purpose was to… — Marie Kondō Copy Share Image
“beginning of this book that the instruction in reading that it provides applies to anything you have to or want to read. However,” — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such story as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You can tell you're reading a really good book when you forget all about everything else and know you'll die if you get to… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his… — Gao Xingjian 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
