Actually Quote by Lloyd Alexander Download Open image “I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.” — Lloyd Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actually Book Books Impossible Shape Well
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's… — Julia Jones Copy Share Image
“There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter." "It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and adult literature… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.” — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
