Books Quote by Ben van Berkel Download Open image “Ideas can come while reading a good novel.” — Ben van Berkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ideas Novel Reading
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas. — Peter James Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It… — Ben van Berkel 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
