Books Quote by Ted Dekker

I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.

— Dennis Green

What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

— Philip Pullman

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

“AB: It’s a great gift. It was the training: to listen, to observe. Those skills are very much what you need as a writer.…

— Amy Bloom

“training in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also…

— Amy Bloom

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics…

— Talulah Riley

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959…

— John Lewis

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology…

— Luigi Colani

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic,…

— John Lewis

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here…

— Anonymous