Books Quote by Danilo Kis Download Open image “I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.” — Danilo Kis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Disgusting Literature Overcoming Writing
What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Nacionalista je, po definiciji, ignorant. Nacionalizam je, dakle, linija manjeg otpora, komocija. Nacionalisti je lako, on zna, ili misli da zna, svoje vrednosti, svoje,… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“Ne volim ljude koji se izvlače iz svega kao kišne gliste. Bez ožiljka i bez ogrebotine. Komedijaši.” — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“Terribly thwarted in the autumn and winter, deadened in summer, in the spring his egoism would awaken his once inadequately defined revolt against world… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“Što je bilo, bilo je. Prošlost živi u nama i ne možemo je izbrisati. Pošto su snovi slika onoga sveta, i dokaz njegovog postojanja,… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“Kozorogi, što me nisi poštedeo toga! Što si mi pomogao da srušim spomenik od zlata, od mesa, od mesečine. Euridiko sliko, Euridiko senko, Euridiko… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“The flickering shadows dissolve the outlines of things and break up the surfaces of the cube, the walls and ceiling move to and fro… — Danilo Kis Copy Share Image
“Mislila sam, kao što ljudi u teškim nevoljama misle, da će mi promena mesta pomoći da zaboravim svoj bol, kao da svoju nesreću ne… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“I assigned myself the role of Lot’s wife, because her behavior seemed the most human, the most sinful, and therefore closest to mine. Consumed… — Danilo Kiš Copy Share Image
“O čemu još govore njeni paragrafi, prazne rubrike koje je ispisivala nevidljivim mastilom mašta dečaka?” — Danilo Kiš 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
