Books Quote by Richard Wright Download Open image “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.” — Richard Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dope Drug Mood Novel Reading
Writing the book was quite therapeutic at times. It's emotional, it's up and down. — Paul Mullin Copy Share Image
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said… — Richard Wright 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
