Fall Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image “A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fall Falling in love Ideas Love Writing
“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Crystal Roby Copy Share Image
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing is good,… — Jane Juska Copy Share Image
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all in love is fair. — Matt Belsante Copy Share Image
When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality,… — Henry Roth Copy Share Image
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you break a writer’s heart, you fracture the universe of their imagination, leaving constellations of shattered dreams.” — Dr. Nitin Chopra Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
