Violet Duke famous quotes

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).
-- Violet Duke

#Book #Sleep #Night

When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.
-- Violet Duke

#Beautiful #Fall #Writing

I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).
-- Violet Duke

#Husband #Coffee #Issues

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.
-- Violet Duke

#Looks #Revelations #Ends

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.
-- Violet Duke

#Writing #Doe #Ends

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.
-- Violet Duke

#Song #Writing #Anthem

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.