Book Quote by Rebecca McClanahan Download Open image “I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.” — Rebecca McClanahan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book reading Books Fall Lust Reading Way
“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I love books where you can fall in love with the character. And when I say fall in love, I don't mean to be… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ” — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait… — Rebecca McClanahan 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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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
