Books Quote by Margaret Oliphant Download Open image “I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.” — Margaret Oliphant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Next Novel Reading Thinking
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by them in… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant 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
