Book Quote by John Updike Download Open image “I think books should have secrets, like people do.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books People Secret Should Thinking
I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Some people said there was a secret society trained precisely for that purpose, toiling away generation after generation, poring over the book and copying… — Traci Chee Copy Share Image
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike 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
