Books Quote by Wilbur Smith Download Open image “Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.” — Wilbur Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Great Heroes Invariably Life Literature Many Real Real life Them Throws Us
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books, the heroes can make as many mistakes… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away. — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“uninvited help he might offer would be rejected. He was surprised and delighted when she placed a hand on his shoulder as she climbed… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in… — Wilbur Smith 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
