Books Quote by Peter Bichsel Download Open image “Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.” — Peter Bichsel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Literature Shirts
“Our principle is, that books, instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less… — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel 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
