Books Quote by Sylvia Plath Download Open image “Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.” — Sylvia Plath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel People Summer Writing
I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel.… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath 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
