Books Quote by Robert Priest Download Open image ““Everything before the written word was pre-text. From my book previously feared darkness”” — Robert Priest ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Darkness Language Writing
“I fear the dark. The dark is where preexistence abides. It is not possible to think of pre-existence, but one dreads its facsimile: post-existence.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“My light was held in the dark until I was ready. The darkness is not a thing to fear, simply a place of the… — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“... darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light that lies… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Darkness does that. It speaks fears that, left alone, remain unspoken, yet real.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.” — Anne Fadiman 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