Books Quote by Jincy Willett Download Open image “Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.” — Jincy Willett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Unbearable
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I hated reading - I was not a 'good kid' - but I was determined when I put my mind to something. — Susie Wolff Copy Share Image
“I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried,… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“With this book I hope what I always hope—that readers will nod their heads (not constantly, you know, but at the odd juncture) and… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“(D)ialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. 'When you're writing lines...you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push… — Jincy Willett 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
