Book Quote by Thomas L. Dumm Download Open image “Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.” — Thomas L. Dumm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Courses Writing
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that. — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We all have our own book of life. We're just trying to find someone who can read it and understand it. Or better yet,… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life.… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us. — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with… — Thomas L. Dumm 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
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