Writers Quote by Anita Brookner Download Open image “Great writers are the saints for the godless.” — Anita Brookner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writers Writing
The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
“Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive...He never does the unexpected thing, he… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I never saw the premise as 'Godless' is the story of a town full of women. I always saw 'Godless' as being made up… — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.” — Lara Biuts Copy Share Image
“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather.… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I knew that I loved him, it was his whole life that I loved. And I would never know that life. Changes would no doubt take place, and I would not even know what they were. 'How is he?'… — Anita Brookner Copy Share
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Hollywood has made a big push to be more supportive of female writers and directors. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
