Joel Dicker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.
-- Joel Dicker

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Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.
-- Joel Dicker

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Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.
-- Joel Dicker

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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain.
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

Joel Dicker famous quotes

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