Books Quote by Zane Grey Download Open image “Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.” — Zane Grey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Force Novel
I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Forget all those prescriptive ideas about "the novel" and "literature" and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you, freely, in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the characters. They grow on you. And as you read, you start to feel what they feel - all of them - you become them. And when you’re done, you’re never the same. Sure you’re still you, you look the same, talk in the same manner,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven't met the inspiration for your main character yet. Sometimes you need two… — Jamie Varon Copy Share Image
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“You and I will never live to see the day that women recover their balance.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“So that's troublin' you? I reckon it needn't. You see it was this way. I come round the house an' seen that fat party… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“I was a preacher, and now I am thirsting for vengeance,” answered Christy, his face clouding darkly. “Wait until you learn what frontier life… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
“Don’t apologize. It’s a sign of weakness." Captain Nathan Brittles, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon "(1949)” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time. — Zane Grey 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