Book Quote by Van Wyck Brooks Download Open image “No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.” — Van Wyck Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Firsts Men Publish Should
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women. — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many,… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in… — Van Wyck Brooks 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
