Books Quote by Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Download Open image ““The author should strive to be silent in his novel.”” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“the book is silent so long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. he never interrupts you if you are engaged, but… — Jāḥiẓ Copy Share Image
“Silence is the only conduct truly befitting a solipsist, the only one, however, that he cannot bring himself to adopt.” — René Girard Copy Share Image
“I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence.” — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.” — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“My life feels like someone else's, and I wish he were more interesting.” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through… — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Never name a ship after your wife in one of your novels, then sink it in the next chapter...” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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
