Book Quote by Truman Capote Download Open image “Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.” — Truman Capote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Breathe Sometimes
“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)” — H.A. Kotys Copy Share Image
“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished. — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“...Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote 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
