Book Quote by Fannie Hurst Download Open image “The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.” — Fannie Hurst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Captives Creative Creative Writer Creative writers Creativity Inspirational Next Writing
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
