Heidi Julavits Quotes

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Walking

• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  

  Vance Havner
  • City
  • Fire
  • Gold

• You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Natural

• The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Gods

• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Falsehood

• Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • President
  • Personal feelings

• The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Learn
  • Clear
  • Properly

• If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• Journalism is not easy. It's the first rough draft. I don't think you need to wait around until you have the definitive thing. You record what's there; don't delude yourself that this is the ultimate historical view.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Journalist
  • Rough
  • Draft

• There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Writers
  • Draft