Books Quote by James Gould Cozzens Download Open image “I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.” — James Gould Cozzens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Pages Throwing Throwing up
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day,… — John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review Copy Share Image
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when reading is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I hate books that are hard to read. It takes me a month to finish it and by that time I've forgotten some of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. — Laura Bush 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
“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the end.” — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small. — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“Moving on, while he wondered, the dark through which Mr. Lecky's light cut grew more beautiful with scents. Particles of solid matter so minute,… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment's arrest of attention… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now,… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
“Descending the endless stairs for the sixth time, Mr. Lecky thought of all the goods those closed doors hid. Fantastic was the discouragement it… — James Gould Cozzens 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
