Bombs Quote by Nuruddin Farah Download Open image “Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.” — Nuruddin Farah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bombs Books Faces Good writing Reader Writing
The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm… — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that… — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
“Many more villagers, who have seen an elephant for the first time in their lives, give absurd exaggerations regarding his size, weight, and height.… — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened. — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
Everybody I've ever met was destroyed by a member of the opposite sex early on and that damage you took into every relationship after… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I had a very well-respected writer ask me point blank to my face whether it actually mattered to me. Now, without wanting to reach… — Jim Furyk Copy Share Image
