Books Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz Download Open image “The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.” — Henryk Sienkiewicz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Doe Dream Profession Reader Thorns Writing
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the… — M.D. Cliatt Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures,… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“ In genere, femeia nu-si insala barbatul si nu-l tradeaza, daca el singur nu-i acela care sa-i strice sau sa-i calce inima singur in… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
“Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul.… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other… — Henryk Sienkiewicz 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
