Book Quote by Vivek Shraya Download Open image “When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.” — Vivek Shraya ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Book reading Books Music Music making Reading Singing
I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or three songs, over and over and over. I sort of find the emotional pitch of the piece, and then match music to it, and then the music becomes a shortcut to the feeling, so I can enter it… — Melissa Febos Copy Share
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book. — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity." — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to… — Vivek Shraya 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
