Books Quote by Josef Škvorecký Download Open image ““I was always, luckily, only a reader.”” — Josef Škvorecký ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.” — Joseph Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing in my life ever happened that was as important to me as learning to read.” — Bobbie Louise Hawkins Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world. — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us. — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone,… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“I knew damn well that nobody's ever really happy, or happy on time, since happiness belongs to the past.” — Josef Škvorecký Copy Share Image
When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.” — Josef Škvorecký Copy Share Image
“A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there… — Josef Škvorecký 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
