Books Quote by Stendhal Download Open image “A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Bows Novel Produce Reader Soul Sound Violin Writing
A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in the hands… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard… It began simply, but with an arresting phrase, so… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
“At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source of keen… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.” — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
“Through him I could play the music I heard in my soul. I was the violin, he was the bow.” — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal 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
