Book Quote by Jean Webster Download Open image “It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.” — Jean Webster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Entertaining Long legs Writing
In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about” — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all… — Jean Webster 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
