Book Quote by Laurence Sterne Download Open image “To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.” — Laurence Sterne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Humming Literature Song World Writing
To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high… — Laurence Sterne 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
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry. — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
I write songs like someone would write a really tiny book. I think it's the same thing. It's building this world, painting it and… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining;… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne 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
