Book Quote by Wilkie Collins Download Open image ““I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,”” — Wilkie Collins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Dreams Reading
“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness. ” — Victor Nell Copy Share Image
“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.” — Michelle C. Hillstrom Copy Share Image
“I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment. So dear… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My books usually come from a dream that gives me an idea that turns into an adventure!” — Jen Golembiewski Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?" I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels -… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none… — Wilkie Collins 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
