Books Quote by Maurice Herzog Download Open image “'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.” — Maurice Herzog ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Sort True
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor, — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should… — Maurice Herzog Copy Share Image
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we… — Maurice Herzog 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
