Book Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides Download Open image “She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.” — Jeffrey Eugenides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Harder Reading Should Work harder Writing Writing a book
“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and women say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
