Book Quote by K.J. Parker Download Open image “If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?” — K.J. Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hero Walks World World Is A Book
What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent Copy Share Image
I write the books that I'm compelled to and I definitely learn things about the world when I write them, and I hope that… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“One of these days I’d really like to win a battle, rather than just stand quiet while they lose it at me. You know,… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Here lies Mago the boxer, of whom it may honestly be said that he never harmed anybody.” — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die with them.… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“The public,” he said, “bless them. It’s the same in tailoring: they always think they know more about your job than you do, and… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Ah". Tzimisces smiled. "Let me guess. Flowery periphrases, back-to-back literary allusions and quotations from thousand-year-old authors. A marked reluctance to use one word when… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him move far more quickly than… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“When you get to my age, you’ll find it’s fatally easy to forget to hate all your enemies all the time; and once you’ve… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.” — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you. — K.J. Parker 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
