Book Quote by Peter Watts Download Open image ““You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”” — Peter Watts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.” — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
“A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!” — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“At some point though I need to stop cataloguing them or I’ll never get this book finished.” — Joe Cater Copy Share Image
“...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition— the… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do więzów krwi… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if not on… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little… — Peter Watts 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
