Book Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Events Good book Life Writing
Good books are like friends which are deep and meaningful and you love to spend time with them. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life. — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40. — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really… — Dawn Huntsman Copy Share Image
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal 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
