Books Quote by Georges Simenon

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My…

— Georges Simenon

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and…

— John Irving

“...ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...”

— Margaret Westhaven

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

— William Shatner

What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish,…

— Dylan Thomas

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

— Carl Andre

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way…

— Urs Fischer

“Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was…

— Tom Walsh

“  “Out of any piece of wood a god may be carved.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

— John Frusciante

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...

— Sam Maloof

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it…

— Les Paul