Book Quote by Mark Ravenhill Download Open image “Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.” — Mark Ravenhill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Candide Young
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide! — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever. — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
skulduggery pleasant is the best book I've ever read and has enspired myself to become an author. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009)… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming… — Mark Ravenhill 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