Books Quote by Margaret Deland Download Open image “A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.” — Margaret Deland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Frame of mind Gamble Letters Mind Psychology Reader Risk Writing
I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. — Margaret Deland 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
