Damon Galgut Quotes

There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Real

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• I like writing about biology, not doing it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Biology

• I like music a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Music
  • Like
  • Lot

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Reading
  • Lot
  • Shanghai

• Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Process

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

  

  Bill Callahan
  • Moments
  • Angry

• No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Exchange

• I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• She remembers reaching into her schoolbag for the letter the way you reach for a second piece of cake if it remains on the table long enough. You do it without thinking, even though you've been thinking of nothing else.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Thinking
  • Reach
  • Remains

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
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