Books Quote by Bergen Evans Download Open image “Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.” — Bergen Evans ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Glitter Inspirational Love Magpies Seizing Writing
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Authors are merely the medium between the words and the page.” — Caron Kamps Widden Copy Share Image
Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
“They are usually multi-talented, with dozens of ideas streaming across the “high-def” screen of their minds in a moving sort of neon, pulsating display… — Jo Ann Brown-Scott Copy Share Image
“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us. Show more Show less” — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often… — Bergen Evans 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