Saga Quote by Leslie Charteris Download Open image “If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.” — Leslie Charteris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Saga Writing
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
“That, he said, was the way he stayed young—by refusing to take anything quite as seriously as he should have done.” — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share
The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
“if you’d only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out. — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly. — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem. — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way… — George Lucas Copy Share
“If we became a pal to what scared us the most, we could find a simple way to ease all that bothered us, we… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't know how people will remember this series [of the Twilight Saga] at all. It's crazy how intense people are. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven’t read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may — need is the word I use — to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill’s history of the Second… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!,… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs… — Richard Powers Copy Share
All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip… — Dave Winfield Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image