Book Quote by Hortense Calisher Download Open image “First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.” — Hortense Calisher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books and reading Dark Dream Dreams Firsts Leap Life Publication Pure Reading
“An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring… — M.J. Stoddard Copy Share Image
“When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams… — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
“Life is a journey of realization, which often ends in that place where dreams never begin.” — Qosmic Qadence Copy Share Image
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“One must only have a plan and learn to ease dreams into the cracks of life and sooner or later you'll find that the… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“Writing is a beast to tame, an energy to transform. Whip that toad into a prince and French kiss it to life. We start… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand.… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses… — Hortense Calisher 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
