Books Quote by Rosario Ferre Download Open image “A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.” — Rosario Ferre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Building Cathedrals Chapel Novel Stories
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant,… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist. — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste… — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments. — Rosario Ferre Copy Share Image
Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any. — Rosario Ferre 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
