Books Quote by Charles J. Shields Download Open image “If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.” — Charles J. Shields ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Break Forms Must Ready Serious Want Write Writing You
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically. — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“At home, he (A.C. Lee) encouraged Nelle to clamber up on him lap to "help" him read the newspaper or complete the crossword puzzle.” — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks,… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“I think part of your success lies in the shock of recognition- or as the Japanese might say, 'the unexpected recognition of the faithful… — Charles J. Shields 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
