Books Quote by Nancy Hale Download Open image “The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.” — Nancy Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hands Heavy Heavy Novels Lies Heavy Lying Novel Novels Research Research Lies
I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything… — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been… It was less like losing someone than discovering someone. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for. — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the… — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way. — Nancy Hale 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
