Books Quote by Kim Addonizio Download Open image ““Robert Frost said, “No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”” — Kim Addonizio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Robert Frost Writing
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader ~ Robert Frost” — Debbie Linger Chesnut Copy Share Image
“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.” — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
“We tell each other stories to muffle the surprise of disappointment.” — Kevin Moffett Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“For You" For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves. I remove my jewelry and set it on the nightstand, I… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“But don’t wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.” — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it. — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors. Each door is a possible way to use what you’ve already written to… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick. — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“This is your genius: your own profound desire to write. Your love of words and language, your attempt to get to what poet Donald… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“And finally the glass that contains and spills this stuff continually while the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathers up empties, gives… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best; and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystal surrendering the bruised scent… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Like That" Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night, with no moon and no town anywhere and a… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“What Do Women Want?" I want a red dress. I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you… — Kim Addonizio 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
