Book Quote by Walter Tevis

“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse."…

— Walter Tevis

“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse…

— Walter Tevis

Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a…

— Walter Tevis

“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon…

— Walter Tevis

“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases…

— Walter Tevis

“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified…

— Walter Tevis

The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

— Walter Tevis

“Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.”

— Walter Tevis

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”

— Walter Tevis

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

— Walter Tevis

“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.”

— Walter Tevis

“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…

— Walter Tevis