Pierce Brown Quotes

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

Pierce Brown

Quotes to Explore

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Isaac Asimov
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Queen Latifah
- Work
- School
- Career
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Vernon Law
- People
- Learning
- Busy
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

Patricia Polacco
- Family
- School
- Art
We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

Dacre Montgomery
- School
- High
- Doing
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.

Madison Smartt Bell
- People
- Good
- Writing