Books Quote by Mick Jagger

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a…

— Alice Mattison

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

— Scott Snyder

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are…

— Emma Donoghue

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at…

— Richard Branson

You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world.But then, you read.It was books that taught me that the…

— Alec Baldwin

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

— Dolly Parton

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to reading three…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life,…

— Condoleezza Rice

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page…

— Mary Ritter Beard