"I breathed the book before I saw it;……" — Paul Harding

"I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it."

— Paul Harding

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15 Quotes by Paul Harding

Paul Harding has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the…
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it…
I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet…
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time…
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is…
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the…
Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus.…
When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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