Books Quote by John O'Hara Download Open image “They say great themes make great novels” — John O'Hara ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Great novels Novel Theme
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites. — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
“Good fiction always begins with story and progresses to theme; it almost never begins with theme and progresses to story.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The people who want regeneration to be permanent are fanatics for the happy ending, dissatisfied with themselves and with anyone else, unrealistic men and… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Did you ever read The Cat's Revenge , by Claude Balls? Did you ever read The Passionate Russian , by E. Nawdor Titzoff? Or… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty… — John O'Hara 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
