Books Quote by Spike Milligan Download Open image ““Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon”” — Spike Milligan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Writing
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha'… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on your lap.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Writers' trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven't met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a reading. There… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.” — Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an entire apartment… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“My sister Laura's bigger than me And lifts me up quite easily. I can't lift her, I've tried and tried; She must have something… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“The die was cast. It was a proud day for the Milligan family as I was taken from the house. "I'm too young to… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. — Spike Milligan 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
