Him Quotes

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I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… — Murasaki Shikibu
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham… — David Foster Wallace
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the… — Denise Levertov
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith
Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know… — Gladys Taber
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .… — Anthony Burgess
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. — Albert Camus
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is… — E L Doctorow
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The… — Robert Frost
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it… — Leo Tolstoy
I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute… — Unknown Author
...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him. — John G. Kemeny
I love mathematics...principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest… — Rozsa Peter
Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. — Geoffrey Holder
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to… — Karl Marx
That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on. — Unknown Author
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace. — Johannes Kepler
Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out. — Alex Ferguson
All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of… — Lawrence Taylor
Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap. — Tommy Docherty
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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