Attempt Quote by Mona Simpson Download Open image “'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.” — Mona Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempt Difficult Difficult Love Dreams Had Love Love story Stories Story Vision
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
I do believe this to be the over-arching philosophy behind most of the books I've fallen in love with over the years. The more… — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life. — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Love is in all of the books, and that's the connective tissue between them. There's a lot of hope in me; I can feel… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? Does it improve upon the silence?” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I've never had an exclusive relationship to a room where I write. I used to want one. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.” — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook,… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football. — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by… — James P. Moran Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
