"If you liked a book, don't meet the author"

--

Raymond Chandler

#Book Quotes #Literature Quotes

“You know it's going to hurt, you know you are going to struggle, but you Have to work on your form, stay upright, the sooner you get there the sooner the pain is over.”

Source : Source: brooklynactivemama.com
“It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.”
“One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.”

Source : FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Aug 15, 2016
“I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.”
“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
“For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications.”

Source : "William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91" by Glenn Rifkin, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 2011.
“It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.”

You may also like:

Billy Wilder
Filmmaker
Dashiell Hammett
Author
James Ellroy
Crime writer
James M. Cain
Author
John Banville
Novelist
Patricia Highsmith
Novelist
Raymond Carver
Writer
Robert B. Parker
Crime writer
Ross Macdonald
Writer