Book Quote by Peter Orner Download Open image “I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.” — Peter Orner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Trying
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read books. I've read my share of books throughout my life, and I will continue to do so. — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. — Joseph Delaney Copy Share Image
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.” — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
People have to follow their own strangeness. The minute they start making their own vision of the world flattened out so everyone can read… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Considering the multitude of things that happen in any one person’s life, it seems fairly unlikely that those little boys remembered the incident for… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our tall buildings?… — Peter Orner 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
