Findings Quote by Alejandro Zambra Download Open image “For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.” — Alejandro Zambra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Findings Knows Way Writing
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. — Mitski Copy Share Image
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“...she feels a desire to go to the bridge, alone, to throw something over the rail, into the current—a photograph, a hat, anything; she thinks of the pure pleasure of seeing the object lost in the flow, and maybe she thinks, as well, of closing a circle, though she doesn't believe in that myth of closing circles, of the culmination… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share
“She knows that very soon Ernesto won't come back. She imagines herself disconcerted, then furious, and finally invaded by a decisive calm. It's all right, there was no commitment, as it should be: one loves in order to stop loving, and one stops loving in order to start loving others, or to end up alone, for a while or forever.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share
“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our parents. We cursed them, and also took refuge in their shadows, relieved. While the adults killed or were killed, we drew pictures in a corner. While the country was falling to pieces, we were learning to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share
Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Julián didn’t want to regain his love, since he had stopped loving her a long time ago. He had stopped loving her one second before he began loving her. It sounds strange, but that’s how he feels: instead of loving Karla, he had loved the possibility of love, and then the imminence of love. He had loved the idea of… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult:… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.” — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Enjoying life isn't about finding the answers, but living the questions. — Sue Margolis Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You… — James Patterson Copy Share
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image