Whole Book Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story… — John Steinbeck
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. — Olivia Munn
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write… — Stephen Coonts
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's… — Michael W. Smith
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like… — Don Novello
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth… — Michael Connelly
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole… — Victoria Glendinning
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. — Andy Hargreaves
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and… — Horace
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the… — Lewis Carroll
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page. — Brody Dalle
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a… — Joseph Joubert
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can… — Mads Mikkelsen
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how… — Dick Bruna
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go… — Carey Mulligan
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. — George Sand
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them;… — Lewis Carroll

Who Wrote These Whole Book Quotes

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