Five Quote by Elizabeth Crook Download Open image “In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.” — Elizabeth Crook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Five Language Middle Middle school Paper School Sentences
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In fact, he… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
“But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with… — Clancy Sigal Copy Share Image
“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir… — Susan M. Tiberghien Copy Share Image
“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." (on Ernest Hemingway” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious… — William Souder Copy Share Image
“Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another.… — Kamal Ravikant Copy Share Image
The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
When I started escaping to a neighbor's house to watch what I darn well pleased, it turned out to be The Big Valley. Every… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in case no… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I don't think we need a featuring though , because five of us are enough . — Kim Hyun-joong Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me. — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image