Books Quote by Dinesh D'Souza Download Open image ““autobiographical novel. He fancied himself”” — Dinesh D'Souza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Readers are distrustful and, although they accept the rules of the proposed game upon entry, they remain on the lookout for the slightest contradiction… — Marcos Giralt Torrente Copy Share Image
“Because what I am also suddenly know thinking about is that it could be an absolutely autobiographical novel that would not start until I… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“This was a key condition the racists put before FDR. They said they would not support FDR’s New Deal programs unless FDR supported their… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that today steel can be made more cheaply outside America. This is also true of many other products: shoes, shirts,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither is it… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Earlier generations of Americans had to strive to provide food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their children. This task could prove laborious, unending,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“John Locke says that whatever other tasks a government undertakes—whether humanitarian or otherwise—its primary duty is to protect its own citizens from foreign and… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
