Books Quote by Lena Dunham Download Open image “I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.” — Lena Dunham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Success Wish World
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a Best Seller… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough… — Mark L Lloyd Copy Share Image
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a book is published is never as happy as the feeling of writing, of knowing you've written something good, of feeling like you've had a worthwhile day in the chair. That's the best feeling I know, and as soon… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Oberlin being a liberal haven where opposition was king, the coolest clique at school was a group of rugby-playing, neon-wearing lesbians. They dominated every… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'? — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am.” — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m. — Lena Dunham 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