Book Quote by Michael Longley Download Open image “I hardly ever look at my published books.” — Michael Longley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Looks
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Every Monday morning I try to remember to say "Thank you, Lord. I'm not at the Senior Staff Meeting." — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways. — Michael Longley 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
