Books Quote by Dennis R. Miller Download Open image ““Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”” — Dennis R. Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Novel writing On-writing-a-book On-writing-fiction Physics Travel Writing
“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.” — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world” — Brenda Ashworth Barry Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark sea. If… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.” — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.” — James Van Pelt Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.” — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a… — K.M. Randall Copy Share Image
“All writing is travel writing, it just depends which direction you are going.” — Eric D. Lehman Copy Share Image
“I don’t care that it has been going on since the Old Testament. Rape is wrong and I will keep fighting violent men. Everything… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape?… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .” — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.” — Dennis R. Miller 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
