Books Quote by Sally Rooney Download Open image “I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.” — Sally Rooney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Important things More Myself Writing
In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already. — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door, and then… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.” — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do anything about… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature. — Sally Rooney 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
