Book Quote by Alan Furst Download Open image “You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.” — Alan Furst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Hope Get better Hope Better Lot Books Write Write Lot Writing
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I will take all the adversities in my life as a sharpner that sharpens my personality time and again, which will help me to… — Aruna Rai Copy Share Image
I had to rehabilitate my mind and so I started reading more, and I became a better person. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
From my own perspective I think I'm always getting better, which is what you'd hope. — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before dawn, weary… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafés and drifting through the student communities of… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“There's a French saying, ‘Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.’ Let's see, ‘Wherever God has planted you, you must know… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“when at last they’d had to admit to themselves that they’d made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and… — Alan Furst 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
