Books Quote by William Lashner Download Open image “I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.” — William Lashner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hero How I write Lawyer Matter Might Novels Sound Write Writing
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me. — J. R. Martinez Copy Share Image
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
“Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.” — Ozzie Cheek Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here. — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
“We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“It’s all part of the bartender’s creed: make them fresh, make them cold, but most of all, if they’re a little overeager, make them… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“That was part of the job, to pretend to listen, to feign concern. There are three professions who play at that game; barkeeps are… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“I received some really bad news. I’m not okay.” A bolt of terror slashed through me. She had some sort of disease, I could… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“There I sat, in the wreckage of my apartment, in the wreckage of my life – no love, no prospects, a gnawing sense of… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“Class divisions as clear as those between Harrington and myself always bring out my best, or at least my most petty.” — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“The campus was Disney-fascist, a relentlessly upbeat place to wither and die.” — William Lashner Copy Share Image
“It was still quiet at the bar, early afternoon, before the happy-hour crowd arrived with their after-work bonhomie, and even as the barkeep kept… — William Lashner 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
