Book Quote by Suhayl Saadi

“Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.” quote by Suhayl Saadi — Download Open image

“Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.”

Suhayl Saadi

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Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in…

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I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

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I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a…

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My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the…

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In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which…

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Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met;…

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In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the…

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When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more…

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I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.

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