Book Quote by Alistair MacLeod Download Open image “A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.” — Alistair MacLeod ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Charming Fiddle Fine Tales
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
“also by the same author ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND ENTER A FREE MAN AFTER MAGRITTE JUMPERS TRAVESTIES DIRTY LINEN… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
“This book tells my story. I’m writing it in Ireland, in a house on a hillside. The house sits low in the landscape between… — Felicity Hayes-McCoy Copy Share Image
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
“One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are its admiring… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later,… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of it through… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Some men,” she would add in ominous seriousness, “are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it slanted against her window with a pinging sound, which meant it was close to hail, and then it was visible as tiny… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“ On a clear day you can see Prince Edward Island , we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island.” — Alistair MacLeod 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
