Book Quote by John Gimlette Download Open image “I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.” — John Gimlette ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Eye Interesting People Sides Writing
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in.… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea. — John Gimlette 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