Books Quote by Megan Abbott Download Open image “I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.” — Megan Abbott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books I think Think Watching Watching tv Writing
I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. — Avi Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with television since I was 7 years old, and I've always been writing on some level. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
But I think you have to accept - as I have accepted - that the demands of TV are different than the demand of… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have more scope… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“But she became Gabby’s friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl with the… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Where’d that world go, that world when you’re a kid, and now I can’t remember noticing anything, not the smell of the leaves or the sharp curl of dried maple on your ankles, walking? I live in cars now, and my own bedroom, the windows sealed shut, my mouth to my phone, hand slick around its neon jelly case, face… — Megan Abbott Copy Share
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs.Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer. How does this man, a man… — megan abbott Copy Share
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and forth often… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The yearning so… — Megan Abbott 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
