1920s Quote by Jami Attenberg Download Open image ““His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.”” — Jami Attenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1920s Language Matter of fact New york Page Prohibition Slide Slip Slippery Words
“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.” — Michelle C. Hillstrom Copy Share Image
“The words in his book wormed off the pages. Everything glittered like blank paper.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Let us turn over the pages, and I will add, for your amusement, a comment in the margin.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.” — Eveli Acosta Copy Share Image
“Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages.” — R.K. Ryals Copy Share Image
“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.” — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“I haven't even seen him and I want to spread my legs and beg for that tongue to drip nasty words all over my… — Crystal Spears Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,” — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically… — Hans Adolf Krebs Copy Share Image
“How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our… — john darnton Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
“She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.” — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
