Books Quote by Gloria D. Gonsalves Download Open image ““A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.”” — Gloria D. Gonsalves ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Poetry Poetry quotes Writing
“a novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, and” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.” — Gregory John Copy Share Image
“The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.” — Magus Tor Copy Share Image
“Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes upon the swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“The moans made with pleasure during love making become much louder with displeasure during separation.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Mahaba ya kudai na kung’ang’aniza hayafai! (Love should neither be demanded nor forced upon).” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“We are all angelic. Offspring of godly relic, accept and be prophetic.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is not about the colour of your skin but the character you portray. Strive to be unique in your doings and only… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“The heaviest heart eventually heals to heavenly heights. Never give up.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Let people come to their own conclusions, even if it means watching them make mistakes. That way they may grow and you won’t be… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared… — Gloria D. Gonsalves 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
