Author Quote by Leslie Austin Download Open image ““Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”” — Leslie Austin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Author Author-quotes Books Song Wordplay Writers-on-writing Writing process
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on,… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least,… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“He raised his hands and, guided by a redeeming impulse of truth-like a conductor leading his orchestra in a grand symphony-finally set fingers to… — José Rodrigues dos Santos Copy Share Image
“The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?” — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle their letters… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw, mesh together… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Only those who believe can achieve what others merely dream about. However, without these same dreams we will achieve little. Dream AND believe to… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I write, and… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
“Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation.… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
