Book Quote by Julius Lester Download Open image “Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings” — Julius Lester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Born Feelings Fiction Ideas
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
“Books change us. They excite us, they compel us to question, to fight, to believe in the possibility of the improbable; they are the… — T.S. Tate Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get… — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“To give good hugs you have to have some soft places. —Jeremy Richards” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.” — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living. — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring… — Julius Lester 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
