Book Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image “I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Independent Roots Wanted
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start -… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie 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
