Sigrid Nunez Quotes

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Inspiration
  • Literature
  • Books

• For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Book
  • Chance
  • Learn

• Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Inspiration

• History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Like
  • Write

• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• I often don't read reviews.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Read
  • Often
  • Reviews

• If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Funny
  • Write
  • Nothing

• Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Father
  • Inspiration
  • Films

• I would not be in comics if it weren't for independent creators like Kate Beaton, Jess Fink, and Emily Carroll. That's where I found my start and inspiration, through women who did it themselves and built a career on their own terms.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Women
  • Career
  • Inspiration

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Art
  • Write

• Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Dream
  • Justice
  • Politics

• My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

  

  John L. Phillips
  • Dad
  • Inspiration
  • Wars

• I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.

  

  Dontrelle Willis

• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Book
  • Skills

• Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ethics
  • Physics
  • Relativity

• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Life
  • Song
  • Gratitude

• Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Inspiration
  • Write
  • Read