Book Quote by Willa Cather Download Open image ““She had left a book at home that she was impatient to get back to.”” — Willa Cather ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“...since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back… — Tim Byrd Copy Share Image
“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.” — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“She spent so much of her new life wanting to get a break from the kids, then the rest of her time impatient to… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over at this… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.” — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
“She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.” — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather 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
