Book Quote by Nana Mouskouri Download Open image “Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.” — Nana Mouskouri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Months Silence Speak Three
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal,… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Silence in the turmoil of the theater world made me survive 50 years without speaking on a stage, only to say 'No' in Mel… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit. — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing… — Nana Mouskouri Copy Share Image
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away… — Nana Mouskouri 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 mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
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