Book Quote by Simon R. Green Download Open image “Books can be terrible snobs.” — Simon R. Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Snob Terrible
I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Worship Me Like the Goddess I Am or There Will Be Some Serious Smiting." Jubilee” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Don’t you dare try to out-gloom me. I’m the only one here entitled to indulge in deep dark existential brooding.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“He has also worked as a shop assistant, bicycle-repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail-order bride. He has never worked for MI5. Don’t… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Families – can’t live with them – can’t take them down to the river and drown them all in sacks.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“You’re the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Every day there’s something which makes me think ‘I’d better ask Dad about that, I wonder what Mother would say…’ and then I remember,… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“Never look back,” I said wisely. “All you’ll ever see are lost opportunities creeping up on you with bad intent.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I’m exempt from anything I damned will feel like on the grounds that I’ll kick anyone’s ass who says otherwise.” — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“I’m not crazy. I know what I’m doing. You’re just jealous because the voices only speak to me.” — Simon R. Green 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