Books Quote by Richard Ford Download Open image “When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.” — Richard Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Minutes Morning Novel Reading Writing
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story.… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four,… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast). — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing… — Khleo Copy Share Image
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
There are more people in America that love guns and want guns for themselves and everyone else than there are not. It is also… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are… — Richard Ford 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
