Book Quote by Nayyirah Waheed Download Open image ““as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer”” — Nayyirah Waheed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Child Children Pain Writer Writers-on-writing Writing
“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit was my… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she read to… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.… — Ianthe Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down… — Kat Martin Copy Share Image
“i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time. — the mourn” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“to be waterdrugged into rejecting the nuances of my own bursting extraordinary self. and to have this be called education.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship. be what it is. it may be five mins.… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“fell apart many times. so. what does that say about me besides i live through wars.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“stay is a sensitive word. we wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“black women breathe flowers, too. just because we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret) does nor… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic. – the lie” — Nayyirah Waheed 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
