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

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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
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Want

• 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
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Lost

• 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
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Writing
  • Crime
  • Greatest

• 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
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• 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
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Book

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • Photography
  • Living

• Writing is like carrying a fetus.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Carrying

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • True

• 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
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Wise

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Moral

• I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • First
  • Fame

• Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• We live in a world that relies on technology.

  

  James Wan
  • World
  • Live
  • Technology

• 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
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Solace