Books Quote by Grace Paley Download Open image “I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.” — Grace Paley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Pages Seven
I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Pages turn, chapters end...eventually you have to close the book. — Roberta Metalious Copy Share Image
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already. — Minzy Copy Share Image
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one. — Gloria Stuart Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone,… — Grace Paley 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
