Books Quote by Frances Ridley Havergal Download Open image “We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author” — Frances Ridley Havergal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ciphers Our lives Writing
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“one of the essential elements of cryptography: a deliberate transformation of the writing.” — David Kahn Copy Share Image
We are all authors of our life. Unfortunately we write them in pen so we can't erase our mistakes. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own… — Irene C. Kassorla Copy Share Image
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The difference between now and fifteen years ago is I don't think I was able, ever, to write any of those notebooks then in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Do what Thou wilt! Yes, only do What seemeth good to Thee; Thou art so loving, wise, and true, It must be best for… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear. — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail. — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“This view of moments seems to make it clearer that it is impossible to serve two masters, for it is evident that the service… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Might we never be the helpers of the great hinderer, Satan! Let us ask that the Lord Jesus would so perfectly tune our spirits… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be. — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
