Writing Quote by Abigail Thomas Download Open image ““...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next.”” — Abigail Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.” — Naomi Wood Copy Share Image
“Think of all the stories that would end before they begin if their characters gave careful consideration to the consequences of their actions.” — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.” — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.” — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, and everything will be all right.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Take any ten years of your life, reduce them to two pages, and every sentence has to be three words long. It's a good… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong?” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“Good things happen slowly,” said a doctor in the ICU months ago, “and bad things happen fast.” — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“A friend's mother ate nothing but clams for six months. Morning, noon, and night, nothing but clams. 'I don't know what it is -… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl… — Abigail Thomas Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
