Books Quote by Walter Tevis Download Open image ““I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”” — Walter Tevis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.” — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
“He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.” — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ” — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.” — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“We live and breathe words. (...) It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I thought I was strong. But now I don’t feel it. I must feel it in myself.” — Susan Fanetti Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
