Books Quote by Thomas McGuane Download Open image “Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.” — Thomas McGuane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Care I care Literature Scary Stills Writing Writing life
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.” — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.” — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you. — Thomas McGuane 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
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
