Books Quote by John Geddes A Familiar Rain Download Open image ““...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Endings Life Plot Purpose
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, I stopped living in the real world. I expected life to be like my books. I expected happily ever after… — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,” — Brittainy C. Cherry 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
“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.” — Joe Coomer Copy Share Image
“I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and my soul… — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Life is like a book. You read one page at a time, and hope for a good ending.” — J.B. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“It was like my life hung on the chapters of a novel - and each scene ended in a cliffhanger.” — Phaedra Weldon Copy Share Image
“...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...a little of this, a little of that - a little of me, a little of you - put it together what do you… — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain 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