Book Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins Download Open image “Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.” — Jerry B. Jenkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book writing Books Diversion Poetry Poetry is Prose Writing
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred… — David Denby Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events,… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt,… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“For a long time I’ve concentrated on how small I am, how little I have to offer,” Vicki continued. “That’s not the point. The… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. — Jerry B. Jenkins 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
