Susan Wiggs Quotes

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Susan Wiggs

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• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Reading
  • Daily
  • Forget

• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Education
  • Community

• 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Real
  • Book
  • English

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Book
  • Again
  • Classic

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Up
  • Work
  • May

• I am awestruck and I am happy to see that the book fair happens. I’ve learnt everything I know on the go, like my mother tongue.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Book
  • Happy
  • Mother

• Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Mind
  • Alone

• Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • Why
  • Alone

• I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Book

• Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Book
  • Truth

• The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • Book
  • Moments
  • Daily

• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  

  Debby Applegate
  • Book
  • Words
  • Brilliant

• Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

  

  Erro
  • Book
  • Seven
  • Printed

• If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything is weighed. To the gram.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Together

• You're never alone when you're reading a book.

  

  Susan Wiggs
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Alone