Books Quote by Hélène Cixous Download Open image ““This whole book is composed of first pages.”” — Hélène Cixous ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“The best thing about books is that you can start wherever you like. The pages are in order, but no one will know if… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.” — Stephanie Butland Copy Share Image
“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how a novel was printed. What matters are the words in between the pages.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.” — Harlequin Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such a book?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Those I love go in the direction of what they call the last hour—what Clarice Lispector calls, “the hour of the star,” “the hour… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“...and this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.” — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“Here I am now. And it is hell. Paradise? Yes, I still am here, but who? only myself, with my small waist, my small… — Hélène Cixous 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
