Books Quote by John Dufresne Download Open image “I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.” — John Dufresne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Learning Reader Reading Salinger Understanding Wanted
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“[On The Catcher in the Rye] “This Salinger, he’s a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though,… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open. I thought… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may… — Goldie Hawn 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 was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“At 9:15 on Thursday morning, June 4, while Jordan Delreese was bludgeoning his two young children to death, I was sitting in Dr. Hamburger's… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene… — John Dufresne 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
