Alfred Wainwright Quotes
There is much quiet joy in writing: there is exercise for the imagination, escape from the shackled body, solace for the troubled mind.
Alfred Wainwright
Quotes to Explore
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
Walter Mosley
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
Kate Atkinson
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
Quentin Tarantino
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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Edna O'Brien
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So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.
V. E. Schwab
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin
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I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.
Martin Garrix
Area21
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers
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Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.
Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
Aaron Paul
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Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.
Charles Barkley
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I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
Adrian Slywotzky
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There is much quiet joy in writing: there is exercise for the imagination, escape from the shackled body, solace for the troubled mind.
Alfred Wainwright
