Book Quote by Hallgrimur Helgason Download Open image “You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.” — Hallgrimur Helgason ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hurting Someone Types Without Writing
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“— It's Hlynur Bjorn Hafsteinsson, Bergporugotu, 8b, Reykjavik, Iceland. — Is there no postal code? — Oh yes. It's hundred and one Reykjavik. I'm the one.” — Hallgrímur Helgason Copy Share Image
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Everything is very expensive in Iceland, so I got some things done in India in the two months I was here. I visited the… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that… — Hallgrimur Helgason 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
