Book Quote by Sara Sheridan Download Open image ““It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”” — Sara Sheridan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspiration Letter Method Research Writing
“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain… — Tim Collins Copy Share Image
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions to human… — Frederick Kilgour Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such a book?” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers. — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
“Just like so many things in life, the secret to writing a book is just sticking with it. Put in the time and eventually… — Jeffrey Littorno Copy Share Image
“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they?… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught… — Sara Sheridan 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
