Books Quote by Lawrence Block Download Open image ““Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”” — Lawrence Block ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Time
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of… — Taylor Berke Copy Share Image
“Life is a book and you are its author. You detemine its plot and pace and you--only you--turn its pages.” — Beth Mende Conny Copy Share Image
“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“Your unconscious mind takes the things you can’t handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of… — Lawrence Block 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
