Backgrounds Quote by Edmond Jabes Download Open image “The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.” — Edmond Jabes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds Book Books Facets Totality Unbearable Writing
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Never judge a book by its 'index' page. Go through the book thoroughly, before doing it. The same holds good for people as well.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“An exceptional book to read on! The author has a writing style and cared! I do not tell you more click on this book… — Le Douarec Philippe Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Be careful not to judge a book by its cover. What you think the story is and what it really reads, could be two… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown… — Edmond Jabès Copy Share Image
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
