Tevis Quotes

#1. The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

Leon Brown

#2. If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Christina Dodd

#3. I was able to see the love of God paving the world around me but I distrusted this knowledge because it was concrete.

Joni Tevis

#4. The Age of Technology has rusted.

Walter Tevis

#5. In meeting Betty Jo he had learned that there was a large substratum of society that was totally unaffected by this middle-class prototype, that a huge and indifferent mass of persons had virtually no ambitions and no values whatever.

Walter Tevis

#6. and I live alone everywhere. Altogether

Walter Tevis

#7. I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Jonathan Lethem

#8. When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming.

Walter Tevis

#9. When literacy died, so had history.

Walter Tevis

#10. Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Xander, it's a good thing you weren't some sort of Cossack general, back in the day. You get that tone of voice, that look on your face, and I'm not kidding ... even I would follow you into hell.

Amy Lane

#12. Did they ruin your mind when they ruined your eyes, Mr Newton?' Newton

Walter Tevis

#13. If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic

Walter Tevis

#14. To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by.

Walter Tevis

#15. everywhere alone.

Walter Tevis

#16. Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.

Walter Tevis

#17. it was the meaning of more than the game of pool, more than the five-by-ten-foot microcosm of ambition and desire. It seemed to him as if all men must know this because it is in every meeting and every act, in the whole gigantic hustle of men's lives.

Walter Tevis

#18. I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

Dick Cheney

#19. The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.

Walter Tevis

#20. Human rejection can be God's divine protection.

Paula Hendricks

#21. I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Walter Tevis

#22. Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.

Monica Ali

#23. How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

Michael Talbot

#24. It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires - to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.

Walter Tevis

#25. About three women a day are murdered by spouses or ex-spouses in this country.

Rebecca Solnit

#26. Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.

Walter Tevis

#27. I am human. I talk and I listen and I read.

Walter Tevis

#28. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

Walter Tevis

#29. I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

Patty Duke

#30. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

Connie Nielsen