Books Quote by Mignon McLaughlin Download Open image “Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.” — Mignon McLaughlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Great novels Inspirational Life Novel Writing
I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write” — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul. — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
