Book Quote by Walter Matthau Download Open image “We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?” — Walter Matthau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Finished Together Writing Writing a book
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Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
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Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks. — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Doing a movie is like eating five hundred canapes at a cocktail party - you're never really full. You don't feel as though you've… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie. — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit. — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes me six months before I find out what a line means, even if the writing is superficial... To do a play… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
I have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body. — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. — Walter Matthau 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
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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