Book Quote by Jeffrey Archer Download Open image “While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.” — Jeffrey Archer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books May Short story Stories
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale. — Kos Copy Share Image
Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“He had never understood the niceties of life and it was too late to start learning now.” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“Only Sebastian really knew what she was going through. Her demons, as she called them. Jessica never stopped chattering whenever they were on their… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.” — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“When you’re climbing up a rock face, your hands are not more than a few inches from your eyes, but when you’re coming down,… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that… — Jeffrey Archer 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