Books Quote by John Deaton Download Open image ““Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different?”” — John Deaton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hindsight
“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.” — Derrolyn Anderson Copy Share Image
“...when you talk about books everything seems different. More beautiful, I guess.” — Andrej Blatnik Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.… — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.” — George Kohlman 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
