Best difficulty & book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!”

Book Inspiration Faces Romance Difficulty Entertainment Comforting

Author:Debbie Macomber

“I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.”

Thinking Book Done Reader Difficulty I've Learned Departure

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.”

Book Levels Tasks Difficulty Precedent

Author:Arnold Friberg

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.”

Knows Men Writing Littles Book Wish Difficulty Productions Documents Tolerable

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.”

Men Book White Bed Difficulty Old Man Moustache

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”

Book Lost Wonder Flower Equal Discovery Garden Difficulty Wander Just One Dreamer Delicious Finishing Loveliness

Author:Mary Webb

“Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.”

Mind Long Book Whole Spiritual Reading Christ Dark Views Principles Sun Losing Sight Difficulty Spiritual Knowledge Reading The Bible

Book:Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke

“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”

People World Want Book Artist House Forget Difficulty University Intelligence Contemporary Realization Grotesque Inefficiency

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point

“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.”

Writing Mind Firsts Heart Book Matter Hard Use Eye Opportunity My Own Animal Seeing Movement Office Findings Understood Function Difficulty Dissection

Author:William Harvey

“She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.”

Giving Book Feelings Lasts Reading Left Water Written Fine Difficulty Sentences Dancer Hollow Finishing Book Reading Written Word Swimmer Indigestion

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.”

Ifs Book Joy Struggle Share Students Poet Discovery Difficulty Excited Poetic Life Experience Essays

Author:Dorianne Laux

“It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.”

Writing Book Ideas Purpose Social Pleasure Interesting Moral Messages Solutions Difficulty Sake Things To Do Elegant Exploits Interesting Things Riddle Composing Elegant Solutions

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.”

Important Book Matter Offers Difficulty Worthy Lists Advertising Chains Publishing Publishers Bookstores Manuscripts

Book:The Bestseller

Source: The Bestseller

“As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.”

People Want Feels Book Shows Left Higher Degrees Difficulty Storyteller Interiors Left Out

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.”

People Thinking Writing Book Ideas Levels Difficulty Sentences New Ideas

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Trying Book Different Reason Play Character Men And Women Aspect And Love Difficulty Scripts Different Ways Different Peoples Relatable Heroines

Author:Lily James

“I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.”

Want Book Stuff Study One Thing Scene Commitment Difficulty Blame Raised Violent Fundamentalism Skip Fundamentalist

Author:John Shelby Spong

“The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom - so far, that's doing fine too, virtually everything can be published. Although with some books that are too edgy politically, or are especially undesirable, the authors are already running into difficulties. Theaters that produce provocative plays, or clubs that host undesirable events often find themselves on the receiving end of fire safety inspections and fines.”

Book Running Difficulty Safety Artistic Host Soviet Soviet Union Provocative

Author:Vladimir Voinovich

“I am pretty antisocial and have difficulty communicating with other human beings. I know that if I were in Philly I'd still mostly be hanging out in my apartment reading books and playing with synthesizers. That said, I grew up in Philly, went to college in Philly, lived in Philly afterwards for a while - almost every formative experience in my life has happened in Philly. Whether I like it or not, Philly is all over everything I do for the rest of my life.”

Book Reading College Difficulty Communicate Hanging Out Reading Books Apartment Antisocial I Am Pretty

Author:Ben Daniels

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

Writing Mean Book Literature Wish Reader Difficulty

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Children Stills Book Fall Courses Trouble Mines Claims Difficulty Lays Possession Substance Thieves Ownership Theft Transfers Borrowed Implying

Author:Daniel Pennac

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Source: Coraline

“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Hours Elements Difficulty Surprise Expecting Element Of Surprise Surprise Attacks

Author:H. G. Wells

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Firsts Persons Important Book Path Like You Reader Praying Please Difficulty Impress

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”

Ifs Want Wells Littles Book Bigs Girl Too Much Missing Poet Sitting Difficulty Fats Noses Drag Biographies Starving New Books English History Burrowing

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.”

“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.”

Knows Littles Doe Book Science Hurt Knowledge Reader Difficulty Worthwhile Concealing

Author:Evariste Galois

“The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura non facit saltum so unreservedly. . . . And 2nd, it is not clear to me why, if continual physical conditions are of so little moment as you suppose, variation should occur at all. However, I must read the book two or three times more before I presume to begin picking holes.”

Ifs Should Littles Two Book Moments Science Three Clear Conditions Criticism Difficulty Holes Unnecessary Three Times Variation Loaded Objections Adopting Little Moments

Author:Thomas Huxley

“When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.”

Feels Writing Book Problem Difficulty Unconscious Get Back

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.”

Love Book Wanted Moving Heard Difficulty Lips Censorship Puzzles Syllables

Book:The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

“In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.”

Writing Book Lying Order Difficulty

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.”

Knows Heart Book Easy Difficult Difficulty Telephones

Author:Carlos Drummond de Andrade

“I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.”

“You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.”

Book Character Film Lying Difficulty Deceit Confusing Presenting

Author:Thomas Perry

“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”

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