Books Quote by SMITH Magazine Download Open image ““Measured out my life in literature. --Jessica S”” — SMITH Magazine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life
“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I just go… — Tiffany McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Writers should measure their life not in years, but in moments of writing.” — J. Alchem Copy Share Image
“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over.” — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Emily Dickinson… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
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
