Book Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson Download Open image “If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.” — Robert Louis Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Ends Ifs Inspirational Writing
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Look at the next chapter in your life as a fresh start, just because a book may not have a good beginning that doesnt… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Only bad books have good endings.if a book is any good, its ending is always bad_because byou don't want the book to end.” — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.” — A.D.Y. Howle Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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