Book Quote by Stef Penney Download Open image “Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."” — Stef Penney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Knows Picks Thinking
“You have no ideas about what you can find in books these days, I’m telling you.” — Linda Hamonou Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What do you know that you’re not telling me?" "I don’t know what you know, so I don’t know what you don’t know.” — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know” — Patricia Hemphall Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You don't know what you don't know until someone who knows tells you about it. That's when you know that there's more to know… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing. — Nick Dear Copy Share Image
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
“He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.” — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action... — Stef Penney 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
