Book Quote by Jean Craighead George Download Open image “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.” — Jean Craighead George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Pleasant Reader Running Running away Writing
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I had as a kid - you know, where you climb in bed and read for hours and hours, and the book itself is this charged magical object. Later, when writing becomes your job, it's tied up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on… — Amos Oz Copy Share
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
I am actually looking most forward to seeing the country again. It's a wonderful town and the wilderness around there is beautiful. The falls… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
“There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
The dog wags its tail only at living things. A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile, is bestowed upon people, dogs ,… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. — Jean Craighead George 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
