Art Quote by Charles Bock Download Open image “Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.” — Charles Bock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Big Big book Books Fiction Takes
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art… — David Shields Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
