"Having a facility for language is an important……" — Elizabeth George
"Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author."
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19 Quotes by Elizabeth George
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in…
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Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present…
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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to…
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She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had…
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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by…
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of…
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Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It…
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at…
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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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