"But this is exactly why I read--and don't……" — Peter Orner
"But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix."
—
Peter Orner
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
6 Quotes by Peter Orner
Peter Orner has 6 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?
-
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with…
-
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf…
-
John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other…
-
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking…
See all 6 quotes by Peter Orner »
More Bad Quotes
This quote is filed under Bad Quotes,
one of 14,431 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
-
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
-
Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
-
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
-
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
-
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
-
People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
-
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
-
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
-
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
See all 14,431 Bad Quotes »