Books Quote by Shelby Foote Download Open image “If you want to study writing, read Dickens” — Shelby Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dickens Education Ifs Study Want Writing
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries.… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good. — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. — Shelby Foote 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
