Book Quote by Tony Hillerman Download Open image “I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.” — Tony Hillerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Humanity Nature of man Trying
I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
When you read a book by its cover, you see one thing, and then you find out so much more about them as a… — Madeline Brewer 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
I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Once you’ve written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But if I'd known I was going to live so damn long, I'd have taken better care of myself.” — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“Someone had been digging. Someone had been looting. A pot hunter. A Thief of Time.” — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for… — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is… — Tony Hillerman 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
