Books Quote by Dorothy Parker Download Open image “This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.” — Dorothy Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aside Hurled Books Force Great Force Hurled Hurled Great
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force. — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy—“I’ll never be able to write anything that good, not if I live to be a thousand”—but such… — Stephen King Copy Share
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I… — Dorothy Parker 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
