Writing Quote by Frederic Raphael Download Open image ““How is your writing going, Michael?" "Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.”” — Frederic Raphael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“And if anyone asks, you don't know where Michael and I are." There was a moment of silence on the other end. "I don't… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
“Maybe Michael left a candle burning. Maybe be forgot to turn off his iron, or the oven. Maybe he left his dishwasher running and… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“It is the storyteller's prerogative to try to write, every now and then, the ending she might wish for. Even if it exists only… — Natasha Solomons Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Michael stood out not only as the only non-black in the room, but also because of his spirit and his beauty.” — Adrienne Thompson Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page... ~Cynthia Batten” — Cynthia Batten Copy Share Image
“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because… — M.L. Gardner Copy Share Image
“The words just sprang into my mind. Maybe I'd never stopped loving Michael, but now it felt different. I loved him despite the injuries… — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable,… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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 would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image