Attempt Quote by Dave Sim Download Open image “'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.” — Dave Sim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempt Literary Literary work Work
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness. — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
“When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office. — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football. — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by… — James P. Moran Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
