Books Quote by Mary Pilon Download Open image “I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books.” — Mary Pilon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Like Read Realist Who
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish. — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the… — Mary Pilon 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
