Books Quote by Hugh Leonard Download Open image “Gossip is more popular than literature.” — Hugh Leonard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Gossip Literature
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer… — David Spade Copy Share Image
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw… — Hugh Leonard 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
