Book Quote by Wilfrid Sheed Download Open image “Books about suicide make lousy gifts.” — Wilfrid Sheed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Suicide
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
A suicide note written by somebody who is not suicidal is an autobiography. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy.… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine." — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can… — Wilfrid Sheed 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
