Books Quote by Laura Hillenbrand Download Open image “I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf” — Laura Hillenbrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Matter Subject matter Subjects Thinking Trouble Turf
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.” — Caron Kamps Widden Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself. When a horse and a jockey flew over the track… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“In September 1942, a B-17 crashed in the Pacific, stranding nine men on a raft. Within a few days, one had died and the… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“What God asks of men, said Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Each of his workouts was attended by ten thousand or more spectators.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“We figure he is the people’s horse, and we propose to train him in the open.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Stories of cannibalism among castaways were so common that British sailors considered the practice of choosing and sacrificing a victim to be an established… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on… — Laura Hillenbrand 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
