Books Quote by Peter Cook Download Open image ““I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I.”” — Peter Cook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
“No one has expressed it better than a great novelist I heard once on a talk show who said something like "You want to know the price I pay for being a writer? Okay, I'll tell you. I travel by plane a great deal. And I'm usually seated next to some huge businessman who works on files or his laptop… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I” — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“I don’t expect my one to walk from the pages of one of my romance novels. Whoever this man is, when he comes for… — Amie Knight Copy Share Image
“You are the author of your story. Nobody else is writing it now but you.” — Nate Green Copy Share Image
“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it. — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“1. Total domination of the world by 1958. 2. Domination of the astral spheres quite soon too. 3. The finding of lovely ladies for… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it. — Peter Cook 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
