Books Quote by Helen Fisher Download Open image “People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.” — Helen Fisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Love Novel Novels People Poetry Sitcom Sitcoms
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us.… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'd like to write a play, and I'd like to write a sitcom, but these things take a lot of application. It would be… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher 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
