Book Quote by Roger Ebert Download Open image “A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.” — Roger Ebert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Firsts Language Long Novel Paper Writing Written
Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Most courtroom movies feel it necessary to end with a clear-cut verdict. But 12 Angry Men never states whether the defendant is innocent or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“One of my delights in these books, on the other hand, has been to include movies not often cited as “great”—some because they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it. — Roger Ebert 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
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