Fiction Quote by Norman Rush Download Open image ““It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”” — Norman Rush ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Writing
“Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.” — George Strait Copy Share Image
“Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.” — George Strait Copy Share Image
“Missing someone is the same as breathing, I suppose. It continues until the end.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“In life, it's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.” — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
“To start any thing is like to breathe in open air, to complete it is like to breathe in no air.” — Murari Sharma Copy Share Image
“But it’s like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away.” — George Strait Copy Share Image
“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
