Book Quote by Michael Morpurgo Download Open image “I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.” — Michael Morpurgo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Careful Education I think Something Study Thinking Will
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
This book will not harm you unless someone throws it at you which is a possibilty never to be discounted. — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the war, First… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out… — Michael Morpurgo 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