Acts Quote by E. L. Doctorow Download Open image “Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.” — E. L. Doctorow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acts Book Books Compose Composition Fiction Make Music Them You
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year… Who believes in America more than… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless,… — E. L. Doctorow 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
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill. — John Bel Edwards Copy Share Image
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed… — Peter Pace Copy Share Image
“The book of Luke is the account of the Spirit-empowered ministry of Jesus on the earth, and Acts is the account of the Spirit-empowered… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
“In Acts, every believer was living in a direct relationship with Him (Christ) and each one functioned normally as a member of His body… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn't need you. — Jorma Taccone Copy Share Image
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image