Books Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image ““A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.”” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Giving Novel Passion Ruling Ruling passion Shelves Unity
“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“It is just like one of those ridiculous paperbacks where some amateur with no apparent connection to the forces of law and order leaps in… — Claire Ingrams Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear &… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.” — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
“This closed-system idea of literary value, defined and defended by the kind of men who have always taken their power for granted and used… — Jess Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.” — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities,… — Bob P. Buford Copy Share Image
“For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . . it's like… — Michael Ponsor Copy Share Image
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.” — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“The only book worthy of being written, is a finished one with interest.” — Angel M.B. Chadwick Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene 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
