Book Quote by Steve Aylett Download Open image ““Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses”” — Steve Aylett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Effects Reader Senses Well written Wells Written
“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.” — My mother Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ” — Katarina Anhava Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.” — Donald Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could… — Steve Aylett Copy Share
“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His skull broke like the vase and the vase broke like his skull, and both burst forth water mainly, and from the vase some flowers. If I could choose a death I’d make it something like that,… — Steve Aylett Copy Share
“[...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Any act worth a damn can not be ignored and when an effective person is ignored it’s the result of a deliberate series of… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that. — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul ” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other. — Steve Aylett 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
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