Books Quote by Tim Roux Download Open image ““One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”” — Tim Roux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Time
“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.” — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Books are the most precious things we have in this world. Anything you might want to know, you can find in a book.” — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to [the words of the wise]. Of making many books there is no end, and much… — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“The uniformed man led him along a short corridor and turned right at an electronic display proclaiming “The new collection from Kelloggs” and portraying… — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“My dad was a trawlerman, but only briefly – only briefly a trawlerman and only briefly my dad." (2nd para of 'Missio')” — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“I have to admit that I am in a bit of a predicament." (opening line to 'The Dance of the Pheasodile' where the guy… — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“Two uniformed officers approached him at speed. Both were wearing Salvation Army badges and carrying some fearsomely bulky weapons labelled as ‘Googles’. One of… — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“Yeah, you’ve guessed it. I am an estate agent by day, a rebel with integrity by night." (Ch1 '(Just like) El Cid's Bloomers')” — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“I am on warp-speed headed directly for the sun; I am Icarus." (opening line of 'Girl on a Bar Stool', new / CreateSpace version)” — Tim Roux Copy Share Image
“One day someone will say to me: “Is it autobiographical?” And I shall reply: “Only the bit where I die.” To die has always… — Tim Roux 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