Books Quote by William Petersen Download Open image “Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...” — William Petersen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ocean Reader Sail Sailing Vessel Writing
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Trying to write without reading is like venturing out to sea all by yourself in a small boat: lonely and dangerous. Wouldn't you rather… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!” — Tony Jones Copy Share Image
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in the Western Lands. Point way out he can start stirring of the sail. Writer,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through… — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work. — William Petersen Copy Share Image
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it. — William Petersen Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming… — William Petersen Copy Share Image
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted… — William Petersen 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
