Book Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Order Reader
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain 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
