Books Quote by Philip Larkin Download Open image “Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.” — Philip Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ends Modern Modern novel Muddle Novel Writing
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I wanted every novel I have ever read to end with a true beginning.” — Adalet Ağaoğlu Copy Share Image
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The beginning of a novel: start a subject, no matter where, and to have the desire to finish, start with very beautiful phrases.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed… — Roz Morris Copy Share Image
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.” — A.D.Y. Howle Copy Share Image
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way… — Philip Larkin 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
