Books Quote by Tony Burgess Download Open image ““There is a heavy price to pay for writing a bad book.”” — Tony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Writing
“A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.” — William Collins Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap.” — Shaun Bythell Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…” — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
“Something’s wrong in the air, you know, when a book costs less than a bullet. Or a Coke. Values-wise.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes… — Cara Rosalie Olsen Copy Share Image
“It's strange to sleep. Sleep is a mysterious thing even in the simplest of people. When you're sleepy, you seem to be getting sick,… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It’s my job really, to help you, my reader, in accepting things as real that aren’t. Most books try to get you to accept… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make… — Tony Burgess 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
