Book Quote by Jose Saramago Download Open image “If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.” — Jose Saramago ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Life Writing
I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Even if you aren’t writing books, you are the author of your own life. Your life is filled with these small and big decisions… — Rebecca K. Sampson Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless… — Jose Saramago 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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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